Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15b0b9e99d24161f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-10-17 19:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 68b04fd67ce004a2d8561bb67a587f51 SHA-1: 2d830da147de7b95e1f7f4290bf03476e7e9279c SHA-256: 15b0b9e99d24161f09b0fca9f38fffcd9bd1ab9472a9a1440a0460dd1700aab0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing or malware download pages. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not explicitly detailed in the heuristics, further supports a malicious intent to execute code or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18c8b379a031ed93d9440157b472ab31/xoverabujefukuzigutazas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/zoteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/vinotomoxijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16168312b368a5---81429650098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/susezedaseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59041331997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/46673969504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/kepudatususidufuwolurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/91336219457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55106545472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/1661726817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omejg7ojonc4hs0qkdgqhhjuf6/61532551354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/lisamoxajufidebeliluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/xuragumepopetidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_E89DD054F0CD2F4F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigunanevufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/45907982184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjmhospital.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jemudivemivogugipawoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/89655303302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ruletawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/4dZi1sgP-vI/uplcv?utm_term=witches+and+their+familiarsPDF 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_off0000d9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AD 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 4472cbb3840c5daa07f0206bf860ed73147326bbe92b36f85257b307962191ef
font_01_sfnt_off00010484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10484 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C9B 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 221df80d5b712fe0c8f691d1f5616604d631369cbdb2da6df074b8ba4871c984