Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 515427f0052df3f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:22:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 827e635585feeec06fe80fd118b9a20b SHA-1: 95ebc9b1d7ceab23040232f89e11b66b186b6904 SHA-256: 515427f0052df3f20ae9313edbff4ffd13c8c2a0329e7bb1ab6c687d9b9465ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised sites points to a tactic of obscuring the true destination of the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inflammatory+response+syndrome+sirs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://caffepontoni.com/uploads/file/dalufiwewasufubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3467848533206d84137ca6ac01175d8/segobidejugogafevemeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/sunenodapedoninotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609194a87c1fc---67900475227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/1623947770343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a8db1765ea6bfe3ad9b890812d3eac/66301525742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/fixevepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/jesuzigivolozajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/51578546337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/36073026033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e009184bada957b019ce1dda19ebad/zimolobetanebokapipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zumefasivalawubugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/72931330540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/62697934597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960a50b280a11808aae190744b3ccf27/83866383611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a32b78e1c7---8038114840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb23a056cc2f985fcf789141206d7ff/96669168314.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_off0000c0bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CF 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 4267799c50f2f38fbbfa5cfb1f45b41da96acdfb23ee749b3d2c5b4491a8677f
font_02_sfnt_off0001065e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065E 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 6216f47e162074cf76b66dc3920a6d9721ac13a6a9a0eb1d080987dba068d4b3