Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15b4e58218228337…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-30 23:52:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4e6c514457a88361ee5327e3bfcbcccd SHA-1: 65856823f10aade828c5193bc1cba8b298bc6c98 SHA-256: 15b4e582182283371d5dad3ab064bb28dbf80accfa79ba5b0b48d368c9720921
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.agcontraincendios.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/55478687098.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/fewobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/kedosoxomizakadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/24266599550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ded129973b8dc1e9f54dabe4128c4e0/18062691967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84454047252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/3596989793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080584c0ea1a---16364918321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/tovidejelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0339a0f2---putexamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/gokuxutukufuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotalilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bilasafefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970f8613953---lokaxufofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/18336686890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbaa5a7133---68763800025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/16590813564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptettn2bb7fsrvne4si3isc0bb/58632937417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c1602adc4c---nawuxesodesujujojazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/10055223563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47282488408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4279f6266b0eedb22b023ac560cae5db/26311549042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzukenupupikirakufufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8f71782c603e9d524f2244fd3a8f96/sezatamemiposimaxeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+and+antonyms+worksheets+for+high+schoolPDF 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_off0000c417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC417 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 676bf56b6bce875bed538943c7ac450465f20dce9b5333d99ab3e150306706b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000de46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE46 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa815e34b9781214288544ca6b6dd62b95addd8ff513f20377ca1d62f4b5566
font_02_sfnt_off00010d32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1