Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15aa7acfcfb0d434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c7ccad1c8d277a7844f47825aafefdc2 SHA-1: a2b47d7b988b63a6e513e8add21d328e9c7c2c45 SHA-256: 15aa7acfcfb0d4344fb6dc3dd8c2994e723c6c52daa7349e36204c3c15944704
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate malware downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into executing further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613B0D8916EA7.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/30535863668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/090fcc2ed35f7e20f164076e1b04816e/83711435536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/25188556970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/12817189147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780c86f4130f7250fb0d8cae77f5e7ea/komejoxokoxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f45b40c515---femugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankrivanek.com/userfiles/file/bivafuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralolidumemitizipugixofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1631293484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/goloxekomalegolumakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/58557005883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/26897265603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e860818df3---84268403111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/tejuguxutikanukalufipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/49460604900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/56646501704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/36101588619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifeboxulolekodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/gegesamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a68e690710---43074621769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb020f5f815ef270bb1411f53fd0f9a4/70813778471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/rojuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=flash+nexus+5PDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CB 10108 bytes
SHA-256: e69c4c6de08bf6abace28d0a36d2d556914be9f3c2b93d1226d6247f761f50fa
font_02_sfnt_off0000f04a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04A 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 99dcbfb5dc7a2b77c5a0c9a9bec63caaf4376d1d1962519d0df83627743a8393