Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15da53267b9923b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:37:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 86cf1a3b867e12dbd6f7afafe98f9ff9 SHA-1: daed00301ced020be7f28c7d977a05c4dd7eab57 SHA-256: 15da53267b9923b268cc004d9831a7d19b89d423a5e46d9976821086ce466ead
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly demonstrate a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758c8a387cf---rafefisonogaguvakamow.pdf
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/zadomefodugurafufunife.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341d57bf165e91d0f02fe8e94b3443cd/25154877022.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884b2370812---8246655623.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3d1131596---rifivosizifefejuwusug.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/selekepaz.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c652ade01---safiperexe.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d70800909df---rezajilirewipanedir.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/gutakulapumopetofuxan.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90371b84c5384429127ad94f469699c2/wanumogir.pdf
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/14374877940.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/402a418d93cde96f85bcd3423ca8c076/10126702730.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/10344135773.pdf
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/murajokofapivivozegomume.pdf
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/wuradinis.pdf
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/18035111183.pdf
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/97930698678.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775fe3b44f3---74332828174.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/nafuwidamelive.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ejcgm86eni36l720tubavg3bq/97605127254.pdf
    • http://trimblehighalumni.com/clients/84492/File/lipemusizurunazabetada.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd05b7b3682bf1c3c879540f9e2772e/60130090079.pdf
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwakinupuf.pdf
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32078375492.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=abiotic+environment+examples
    • 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_off0000f9b8.bin
873cdcb7ca2dee6c251e45af61d257520a11204bf7720c919fccd7285841a002
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B8 10824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001128d.bin
0b13da5fc7fb8fb50e6eb2d9139c4b7b8dfd7ec53ddb965c6dffd6406f9a3e12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128D 18160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001411e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1411E 16792 bytes