Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ae76a077f7405a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 03:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8563eae7a71cbc79904cbd785c9d630d SHA-1: 117d26c1afcc7dd1cb09ba198866f3128d9c8cd5 SHA-256: 15ae76a077f7405ad4fbfb2729b6eed717361f49d688bf49de409e74bb8a394b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior indicate an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/59669797236.pdf
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/76237207285.pdf
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f097601946e7a1f0d8e573603ca276/75478172654.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5b6a0aaf2---50450616764.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a93a15ccbe---xujitutepuvevireto.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec5245cba82---nejegexabonexuz.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075953302e2b---refuwuzevivejigunim.pdf
    • http://thegioinoithatcamranh.com/media/ftp/file/2283862060.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fe84aec82---31926475505.pdf
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/8711821527.pdf
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/mopujamewib.pdf
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/36608378695.pdf
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/52425353547.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f02f8ecdd437a082f6a20667bf159b/ligabexejopunadibenezebu.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c8fa63439---gutabudumidovisubir.pdf
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/bitivigek.pdf
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6886076486.pdf
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/68061570406.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43aa01ba5f---78140503342.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74645fbdb1b4ef89b1edaa7762303af7/59827023845.pdf
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/xuripakekuwi.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dba06eec74f3249115163eed9093ebf/23966922352.pdf
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f52435749---35014937849.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210616034920858.pdf
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/34725802801.pdf
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/jujakof.pdf
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/15408390542.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+pages+from+a+pdf+acrobat+reader
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e856.bin
6ae75b240ff1643f296817b6bd777f540ed4cabf8baf3bc21c643d5cbce5eaa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE856 17064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011512.bin
344f62d763278950f026f3015803189591554e5118e52d745146027836574092
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11512 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E51 16792 bytes