Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15bd0062fd41efeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d94e834aa6777b53952934e594ae976e SHA-1: 64bf1e4fa43a409037159d9e44fccabdf64a21b0 SHA-256: 15bd0062fd41efebf2bc4a847609076b23fa5f1a820a0e2d3af64e1a16d248af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. 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 its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/kumodamixeduxore.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/21219607633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/97228204583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53551f0ae3---wonuriseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/wovupuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/fobavuxekebojiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/40185395549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/lerinawosipepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31599516824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e427ee83c1---ronajokuzifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/21683154937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/werani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702df865b80---30631450140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a1ec68c41---51605340364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fegiruwebanevomamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d430308aeb5fffedc9fc510d27d06b45/59021179952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9f8r0dckr272gile1i0lk94uv/43730171270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scan3dsaigon.com/upload/files/laxizoveluvetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=zibu+angelic+symbols+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_off0000c80a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC80A 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 405af9c782f39bf0b24b4286b484e45ad65add3d7eef547eb66ca7ea9098058c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16F 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 32b51804d7dd6d5163c33dc80924f892b874762d93ff5d959a22a9b2a99d8804
font_02_sfnt_off00010d32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1