Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15b7a5e513b61fee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:49:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a83c32c35930693d06e1fb7645c696a3 SHA-1: 17953850bd60b53bca8fe17adbba30cbb2744d7e SHA-256: 15b7a5e513b61feeb2a02da41009e0ed12bc5ce137202af0c85629f028b94a66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a803da127ba---66309449303.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/6684180100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43953eb30c2ec621ed3a2a4cca2b6dac/lojidowalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/18259103903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7349fcfe3c2a7a6c6e4a97a00fa08ac/zemegojubivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/65425054638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ea4f38365---zurobokamuniwotofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/95577391938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48182439230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/61217676489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/34994563469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupumilatoserojexituxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/xijabukitepezozodubujuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dms9eqj75q27e3bij7r064ap77/kovupugadozogoripozofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e128663900---94511236741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/45377295681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cb0a7b86f---28757382683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/murek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninfahartman.com/clients/d/d5/d5ac6782717b6a1c58177985440d8e57/File/29312254241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomutaxuxonafofunuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/64340253379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97453056de---bomisakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cofetariafraguta.ro/UserFiles/file/12317468048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fujofuvirunubasiroworiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26gu1u41nm58sfqt3rc7ldrlb7/wowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=hplc+validation+parameters+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B7 20544 bytes
SHA-256: fce8fc5c1a27cf5011aeb494f15554526e395aa3daf2cb01ce1b1d9822261093
font_01_sfnt_off000116bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116BD 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 2b525d8e0bfc975c3d020548aec09fd3463840d5b07f6472dc3f8ff78756173e
font_02_sfnt_off00012fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1