Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d59ae82ab8fae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a299b1557519313c5bf9ca1cba16cf30 SHA-1: edec57f5cdce275e754994da01003f77757165d7 SHA-256: 15d59ae82ab8fae6a447f9eefa351f4db3ae16426d2b91565b47e357161510d9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure for users to click and download a payload. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/28807321994.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a105df03e2---lafodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/19946012727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/susumezawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/17867435487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/gatukafitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/tididawaninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xyr59.com/filespath/files/20210906043831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/6130834726132d470e5856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurybaths.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/vefukikajexozozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368c4b79630---remikodotitixedawesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613831d31dd3b---posus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39632366940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/37645042543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/zobedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/vuvitejafasiwebogibuxawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306f88d0b1a---kajobizidukadasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1d3c2cc33---kuxokanaboxeborakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc6c51a578bfc8ab936982a13259c80/rimabutisaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallarpurnaisuva.org/go/file/redudoguvozaxorijejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/41124481331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/82891810780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130947f5e90d---82931541790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+android+9PDF 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_off0000d9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CC 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 61d96f7829f915e31d3cd53f0da200d43ca60b09ebb659e460e2394cbed623d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D9 19180 bytes
SHA-256: 965b5eca675bf67e3f0dbb4fdccef0f722de434ed6e4865db8dec30ebb37e177
font_02_sfnt_off0001234a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1