Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ce459b82daa5e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f17f545729af98523422c484772ade3 SHA-1: 3ee23f8b6f42f919a4713d71813b2fe649746761 SHA-256: 15ce459b82daa5e6c6a4c317cf00b228815721eb96e940fe8a971f72d41726c1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure with embedded links. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate it's an image-based lure designed to trick users into clicking external links. Several of these links point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/68572375130.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/nijuvojutamivegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papierplus.pl/userfiles/file/1082238251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busukexejulidoxujote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b006da5864---ribewiruwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ecbc57447d---33209999135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/mavogiwigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bd262d3331b12a519e3dc0afaf2eea/jajovabebuzesojuvobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/53681825906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/77863315177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/xametunewejobavozamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwatodejugazomesemebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08997af5b2dc81197d58ce452f580d24/zozezabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f23aaf34---28613643684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/47214238506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///sinorafokevufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/69880709016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabojixesusorolututoxuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educaholistica.com/resources/img/imagesck/files/37438542202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/livareweziwokobupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/didezadibojifurowemuxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafitym.kz/files/file/xategijofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0225674989.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifirejazixetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ios+8+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB435 14060 bytes
SHA-256: 4c0830df7ba12afccf5d2d86ab069176631954afdeaf1f4ecb55000eb2140ea4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD730 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 4062cd75427f0a8444fa086fbfd18efe2b98c116cb9f386dc106392aece93263
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1