Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d3ca35f333fc3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a478b01a87fa64433ab344b3fca59466 SHA-1: 44842a7dda66d4fe7aae8c1c58d8a3443e5f9cb2 SHA-256: 15d3ca35f333fc3f357c4cdf8bd24110ec1ba5fba1c887de2b1c6719ccb9c096
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV signature and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially disposable hosting. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210904232443.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134285db15a7---41332966549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibisewuwuxiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/lofedibugulawijunexorezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090300094598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11819575971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/wukaribugewofigadazudafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/46758320890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/kugoditawuketon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/63207901290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/35230154193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubadutadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/56238081428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/43199994766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394fa59be3f---88061971106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/80474713757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210909005048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/digonokasafujigefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syria-report.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2884941797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9aibtvabcmmugco4hmg6so90v/30579730760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/840841971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15039211218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90aoja6ahg5ds.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/3927803409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8221b9c5e0dbd1ffc7b2c1b8c9c9d074/97903746446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=kotlin+android+studio+pluginPDF 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_off0000bdd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDD9 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 4231dc84427de180de0210eacd4d0a9b74594e3d66253df6bcfca8144a8759d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBC 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 078f2e3e8f8b6e15b00247de000bb3c61b34aa613ef7a9f876e4007c3b58169b