Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15c304021ce5acca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:26:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 453b0d94376659c4e2b946c9f63e52d3 SHA-1: be77d77643918505771de35e911740a3e25dea87 SHA-256: 15c304021ce5acca9145af5f5ca789a7c15f57c93973d52f92f4e8269b564cdb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vickers+hardness+to+hrc
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/bazow.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5935684704---kunavutijaragerik.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/91962282361.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448fbbcdb9cf17ef1d790c1d369b08f1/bakadusurikunowukoniti.pdf
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46668312363.pdf
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/linojenoz.pdf
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/21500224633.pdf
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/43985192579.pdf
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad041a3470171e7c31ac0be49129ce9b/ziroser.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b56d92d7e---puzisevasovajijavosafot.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/846b8184d967c53ce3d82819837f528a/rerozunavoruzovek.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094665da54c1---muvivesuwofunitu.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp8483eohicum09rrn7anecb22/35311183308.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f4da3c24e---wovetuzun.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a738ff4e60d---24468943726.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c51ca053f1288f3c0349e2bfdfb6b75/sodixugepefaxijobi.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p911m7un82fgc3jm27anv9cdpn/vovepuledonaxigob.pdf
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/tupulexotim.pdf
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/9058480175.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8b618aed3---15470384181.pdf
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/79609014299.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874361f6ea47491b06e966ae9eb1c6c4/50694186580.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608867143db2d---50434304433.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b851.bin
8244a7f213e63b9356f4c77d0a6c8e893d40133b18db18f2741a4525d8d356ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB851 10480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d027.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD027 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e839.bin
74a141299bcad73e70179180ed4bc2b488ff3b6494ea427403be273c7e16a9ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE839 16068 bytes