Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 315d9a6d1e9918f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 37b0b49e479eb08eaccbe05bd6385643 SHA-1: d23edf4d9660fc8040bf4454fb87aef5a4795ebe SHA-256: 315d9a6d1e9918f0a88335dfe222f8ea4e3fd0a44f5687bc6319c90574532c99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support the phishing and potential malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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 http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ef9d80cc3---levofabuduvipegeti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36760974837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/19158880987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150003.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210904063708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/bopepazovodavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/2253619769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/2762470868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/dojelemuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/zatebuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/83404881372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegrelli.it/userfiles/files/9920802653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613faba53f6bf---viveweturopememup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/95159634942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/71613284328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/tabajopasaregapitefufitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/36926574689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/kosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/57248809776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqbcvm21k1dsg3ojioj4usi727/nopizebodepakiwinosos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/15410128853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/kevonamekubitotogobiwusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/nefevowotuwizixutewizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldtradezone.com/userfiles/file/tomagenaduzutukisixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84134012421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivaranaxinufusukukoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=beach+buggy+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD970 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000e168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE168 23112 bytes
SHA-256: 002194173cca8e70af8040c6e17c849fee94d7c2f20dd1720c2867359ee5eba5
font_03_sfnt_off00011b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B05 10920 bytes
SHA-256: e40a3a1706da5b8dc91bf953ab4ab92638b10d3250cf533adb15a38500303a85