PDF malware analysis — malicious · 15ca8924a1cd0af1

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:13:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11

MD5: aba32e1e669f14e580275dfa72db7b4c SHA-1: c752e1651f380ee53b221a315f93f1378607f028 SHA-256: 15ca8924a1cd0af15c814b39af29604ed9c334dd5a36fef6d466b9c3820bffe7

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/51335990855.pdf In PDF document text
- http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ff1ed77215e49a759ea24e39026c55/pamavawozugenodosato.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juv2755u2vnvc26b2cicrf49ka/74866688040.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/nevufaxixiretepinupep.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6e0ceb28fb12dcd8e00b89925a8056/kalodokix.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/98913358406.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775fa377540---69552069445.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/28100979478.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/birufiwedesufikimisefev.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://btegypt.comfile/sinugo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogomejowikuxumim.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/17518283047.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://freeware-software-download.de/uploads/editor/file/wuboduvuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111c093021ca---vejitoxuvinebojez.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/97307471065.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4401505916.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/fawatejif.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecaa115b78---kodumonugibedozawovufe.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://fundoohairstyles.com/hairstyler/images/file/goguvebu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/47571136770.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/bigaludawuxomovofaboxomus.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c007d9641cdf7654169808fff586cab2/lakerif.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/7899741184.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxesamotuwogomizipuzuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=an+intellectual+history+of+psychology+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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000da41.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA41	18032 bytes
SHA-256: `c1916d87ceedf57da5d4cb78227f2cdcc4fb5a7a4b11b6201b1a00da2bc29783`
`font_01_sfnt_off0001087e.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087E	11096 bytes
SHA-256: `d4044b12cf5ab9552d93a733e9888f9f8c6760b7ec76cc32b90aaeb82dfdedd7`
`font_02_sfnt_off0001222e.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222E	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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