Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d15cce88a26aede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 98040d6dadab820b31e983ee247e51ed SHA-1: d7d05747bb13cb2ff0c5c7a0f1e53ec4591dd0c6 SHA-256: 1d15cce88a26aedeea6fff65b0bafb0a109c19d2f9a518fa2ffd9bd179a7d565
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eight+stages+of+psychosocial+development+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca421d9fbe31bb06db8bd23866496346/58370491783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60DDDD3E84593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpoggi.eu/userfiles/files/bojola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210726034641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/zonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092358241d29---50329011236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/37502867916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803bc50090f---74453573396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301b8887624---41250442671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vve20c90u8m64tnbd4oqj1m43h/19960521428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7857e07f82e30b418f67c35be60cdb4c/tubere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3t73embkea4dfcb1q1ckauj6h5/51078386451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/9310640046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6ac1acbe2---jagivudipogoruvabile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609799a5bcdb7---jesefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2632fb40b7---99356829492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/15866869866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2edb4950---43247269691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/danores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/fawawefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e311861d9b9460a827dfbd4ece59fa/diwuweridivigojitedibezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e134bb1f7eaef81af9cf0b1a142a6cd7/gesesasexawuvapiputasesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124e58fb6d0e---43394535040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/60504549382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/62505013456.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_off0000fa85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA85 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 216994064c1cca002ac7f9346ceb42f043527385ab0dafe204e84e535ebcb0ab
font_01_sfnt_off00011424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11424 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C36 18944 bytes
SHA-256: 6814693f327fdebf8accc49f684412d18f70568ac6cd0cc008842ae9bbaa229b