Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c15c20c540073c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:16:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1f862463ddb9e20d4ea23e014d419427 SHA-1: e21a47b75c67977ac03f619930b7f96bd9b3a757 SHA-256: 1c15c20c540073c8c5da925a4f77affad59173cbafba3f1cc6ef8fdddcc97d13
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+ppt+template+free+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7775fd70b8693e7b1731db7c0a18c3e8/tilelakezejeputawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/18763297260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojer.bg/files/37092804771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210530193806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/15017161203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bd0f47a838141128a71b24af80fc70/28777912679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/3553331141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/45337180173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qonrmnnvgigbj8s1n02g1cbten/wazirebolesumajuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gpolhrebpm8aq2kdikfshupm3/63520402910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/guratevejufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janandpoos.com/clients/872640/File/74421668311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakeliralikefariwolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/makamakaxovezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607715d39b793---97135611255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/40635102538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/bijofinasupazojikiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/46221543147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321f93fb723751725d0fa728a4087c41/24984511503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051623090373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/81968026077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd0d754754---kobivibodufapuwagowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a4c3dd58---kejokutopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d7b40dc2a---27467281942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a916cb701---1841620212.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_off0000eab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB5 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 2707027d6a646155d78003f299f036531bef1e049675ce70986dc3051f903ea3
font_01_sfnt_off00010369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10369 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 1f17b497c4704d29e1ad0db249b6c4c4259f1108b9580498e2cfd9c326bc6b09
font_02_sfnt_off000130a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1