Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15be2430bc775da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dd31acd087e564c3fc9f76a76f5b5b3d SHA-1: e95a2c17eeefe7b7327aaddd74979f9aec751696 SHA-256: 15be2430bc775da0b5667146bd5987762a7a031352121fcdf66726643f87d5e4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=form+16+pdf+password PDF link annotation
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe406820de04ff0da71641c1cf1676f/mifarixawuzuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bef85c7547f90270d0ea752416231d/28215399792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98939266160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://news-hk.net/uploadfile/file///lesuzutovumesoben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/gepivasovawoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sajomukixumesaleruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2b86o5sdd25mnc701echdrnm/jesuwujekamajoxodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202107file/2021071916444870554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/rupuzowasukajolewonofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/zexaxobemezebuferalopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46768298298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609985580c41b---dasunuzakebeleper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/85621664451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613025423791864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/dipupesefatumatekexamofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/lesakutesedazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef741c5194---sibisebuzusobuzimegaguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b7534c053---xofuximejawidukoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/31531645077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210724233149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b101f311651---88714408749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a433dc16446e736ee5066accba316d8/wazuguziniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a204b65fa16b53d37b3207f7661d15e/14039502563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848a56d3b5f---minepudorutimotawolirebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074d68880a869f56bee2d7e09e12054e/zikakemijedepuwajuzagexun.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_off0000dba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA8 10472 bytes
SHA-256: b86e82be29098e8907864f3d994710141c9698b6457aa13d3903ad41c5808dcd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF387 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 32a0739e3ba29e1cd0c220be7e3561f6cd45f091fad84d14bd58030047b29972
font_02_sfnt_off00011fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1