Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15f72fbb62fb6dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 08:11:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9c082bd13dfb46d813f170ab8360b333 SHA-1: 1a4890500245cc2edfcf22c5616ff8fba0fbdc54 SHA-256: 15f72fbb62fb6dbf6f599dd7b09f10934931bfbf454d90267968d23a128247e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest this is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=m+wale+wallpaper PDF link annotation
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607840414ff24---tewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4etl5mcjf2tburmc74qtsamrc/29724133685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532a55ad1fc47fb1d7f3fc31fd62d6da/70622088378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/difukibemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/gizujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a41674ec5---24985112907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efca4f558e6dfb69ed3512dc5480e0cc/11215771883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60jitbfkd07hj2u37lflm306r0/zibesofobepekuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0955b1d04103ad67a7580fc3d6460b97/60456525450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3898308e514c239ef2d0aeaa897ae35/45885591838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737f040a266---teragejaxiniladotuguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/lemabalozelalaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk1jthisl0otr4m35gap5qkqn7/32098471790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1692c29cc6---zepagulabivenirurime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853df5ac3fc---7953372257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eeb638fae---2931647852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838a6e0aa55---kalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b69bbb7879c75413a2ef18310054376f5dfd75ed083035f6f0078b1ce0c67999
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B9 4176 bytes
SHA-256: c4909b4ec7b9ccc27567b524fdc99324c784d79231f1c320a0e0ad27ac734486
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E9 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 28336a0cb3f8e641e75945af3d35324194abd932e21d2bc38800f63db353b10a
font_03_sfnt_off0000ed54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED54 10008 bytes
SHA-256: b686a146cf29ed8b9645352c4e6b1a1221f45e7ec8715b82b60b4a74a5df5077
font_04_sfnt_off00010fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCE 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 9559dd1bd908241551916101fda3d445a26f5c4b506a1423f23393456f9d5940
font_05_sfnt_off00012437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12437 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333