Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195115f15c506cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-10-16 14:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b0b23192f4e44db019ac1800c44a450e SHA-1: e180acfa770d30b33a14214d83b641d27856e239 SHA-256: 195115f15c506cee7e190a5feb1dc635ae72b05b6eeff6ba9cfbeb03c9e12bd9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for user interaction but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=good+football+quiz+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/62167939457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/13071343474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exhibitproplus.net/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/43502273395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/dasewuxojogezejisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a0f71874---depazizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/24419241147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/rizipulirezazukiwudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/52455424498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livumolifuluraruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/17096437072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/jolugewemetitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/kevibobawimerurasufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thaiahpa.com/flash/files/xozolasubelabufigove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616751b7f3368---vatalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/25031996809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161645902662f7---14739674262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f73cea0a46f34fcdc317732d0bc54ec6/18973452111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ng-sons.com/userfiles/file/13803728024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulibelejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616a6410a2fbc---58048791975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/78660007244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109281738378834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/12465134586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/zojarabinifiguforizomeb.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_off0000d947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD947 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9a7a82ad5406c027cc2c2032508164f7385f8f7937f0081c3ec99ab0f60e17
font_01_sfnt_off000105a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011db7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB7 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 41322f5a6948dc61cfb06d6647a2e901371d0656504d0909948a0cb18ec95d88