Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15abec3c586c00ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e69fed4804c0759a896e47c4cc87c154 SHA-1: 5621994cc2a5dc764a6cf112e3b4c461bad675c0 SHA-256: 15abec3c586c00ec75939b54c5f73326ff8f3fe928b8788f9053ad87190ebe4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=die+beste+tastatur+f%C3%BCr+android PDF link annotation
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/lopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artesapanaderia.xyz/aym_image/files/lemibujipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobipiferuxolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405ed896766---24166493052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/fazopiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/jinapusago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/wajilodinutimemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/51620338132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/71619697019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/42749921531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/jewogadededetowabezibujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/5544995396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/52594607297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5588c4b7a29658bc81e1dbf6d0aa2e93/78106943052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/9375052767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/85837036000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/93704015015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bb635a3a6---foxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/femujuveponisebigizafoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/48846045774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/65930183896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/60432432714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/bowowuzoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/53106974317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1de588863---pemekijunisobizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/gudusofexivixovuzatenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/sixewumozikirikakesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilybarnes.com/DEVELOPMENT/VERSIONED/emilybarnes/trunk/sites/default/files/file/37628659652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10440 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 279e533ccfb0a5a6a55745d6dc3cd9caeaaec2058c63e95df3ca31b2a07097ec
font_01_sfnt_off00011cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBF 20336 bytes
SHA-256: 4e02ea1ccfcbda0deadadaa75a0df3a9ca8a89d414fb6e969a78f53aa0802e9c
font_02_sfnt_off00015049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15049 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1