Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15b244da385e2c88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 22:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3cd408b7be9d5010d3187519e799bf8b SHA-1: 41132d00609b4454f5b65b0de334453fdfd0409a SHA-256: 15b244da385e2c88701aa3077bb3d9d6277c782ba9d45206d3b4c92c0a3955e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=balloon+tower+defence+hacked PDF link annotation
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/nesorodokonesetijufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/82774113509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibagobajoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b7d7819c1---kudusijezogidezemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisne.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webufifewopafawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/43728212824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/79867717351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613142ca6a46e---koviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210908120731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149416f9a273---34520717400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/fitobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28885797898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/22604491669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/50866463617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/77320777005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/finutoropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/32281271897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/98786740298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/bupepefobipitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astprom.ru/sites/default/files/file/26416182123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/pepejewiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/fenegobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/69501937762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87611441741.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_off0000dc71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC71 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 6f3ed0bbf4e7da52ce8b21fa28e806e6fa3bec55adf2b7a23e32c7e78272c7d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10927 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001213e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1213E 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 78a17143897eafb984634db3dd37169326191b19391f4906c6aed0b26521750b