Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15f14cdaa4b94f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 29e1e0dbb4f9fb82bf6332e5dcd3b9d0 SHA-1: d3e682fc8597deabefc52f450492e50d4034395b SHA-256: 15f14cdaa4b94f450795c114f6ff7da8c0ea839974b26cad1b55d50ae617a0de
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters points towards a coordinated effort to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 5

  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lease+contract+template+philippines PDF link annotation
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8nbqejo3189pt72kb0dhm3490/81232949752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461c58a39937d7f5983ee0e77f1af602/53062490333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942870e4879---80615782426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/totomowimuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe0706915c961fa633053452ff89425/mividewajewozorimabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad788ea29dc---rasudijugopivusulepedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109e321a06---68904948662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2cc30d37d---98770694576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086060787fb5---20224101939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/simomarudiwuriwopedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c982e513601---lagesopanuzafitata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/vixofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98d87c9f4a---zutuzesodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/mibokodipexamovuzakawiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6acef93557d83cc7a7272a476dd518/wujanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609165c7b287e---sukojividufunajetufetevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a91hjos69ndfl9hiptna7abdte/monofuxajeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2abfbe46b84d8f90dffdf6ce560aef6/zoraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srk5ar391r1nubig8e23q8si65/93734446512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5378es4vt7ak507apnb0n9kdsr/89126088678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d098b2ae64---muzokedevexusinibizulejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmn807ilas28rs0pkk2qqf412l/73186073555.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_off000133d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D3 17220 bytes
SHA-256: e2e645671ff1c3bec2b3965db109e1db211c326ce06fc26d7866a4d6c5a760c3
font_01_sfnt_off000160c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000178dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178DC 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 69f019b02255e3763d150f2fff9778b3658090938064a5c5cdce08a866aa7015