Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15df173fe007c05f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 50bde3fa4e1637e0dfd157b00f29ef46 SHA-1: 3fcd401dc1c2cf1e42dd660e70c160f3b2a4b0df SHA-256: 15df173fe007c05f1873994ebd1305c894985b450aadf7af0aa2bc00f3f5945d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest a phishing or scam attempt, aiming to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+aprender+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/novami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52a451f41---16751843366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/dulajixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c52290765---guzugixavuvijatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/jipazidebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf0e6b0aa6---25094310364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/54804231748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/peredezawovurebakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb655ba88540eed3b49e2303437289a2/tapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icwest78.com/clients/67591/File/nagezoxemadarewoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e8fe0089887e4a2d5bb9c215d264c0/92507934360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/jojuxorezoredesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fb7c02580---23393118715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8342a913---zawuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/33917055788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDC 10288 bytes
SHA-256: b0b00da6f3154c4755a202c4ed972cf3bd548dc2985dd593bb47f1229ed00e5f
font_02_sfnt_off000122ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122ED 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 8a67a9849ca06b41fc33f50474691751d9cd2bf0cb73eabcae0e519b5dc8d646