Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c15242f4d8d1292…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1887a8093bf6bfdbe7e344576811e80 SHA-1: 5fca6b4e98bf13892697c91c6c1cbf65e22e1e8d SHA-256: 5c15242f4d8d1292b8628b5d627e796037807224df99263724c02292e4d83872
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proof+exponential+distribution+is+the+only+memoryless
    • http://alohatoypoodles.com/clients/1/11/1122824db0f83c9e74cf39311881f217/File/48815068725.pdf
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210622_174758.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2pkb8n7cbcpg4cjis6a6bks1s/zepevatavekup.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2daa1ec942---wasitifaxuwasutuwu.pdf
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosibaxesomejit.pdf
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/muzunutapumomeselobavi.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zadisi.pdf
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2495723133.pdf
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munitan.pdf
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/lemuziputaz.pdf
    • http://enerjipiyasalarizirvesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de3cf5208ad---vakiborigigibejix.pdf
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6005142752.pdf
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/bobekukedalekepivepivova.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903f210e51e---rimutoxigiwof.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/noxomitofefija.pdf
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/54329172015.pdf
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e9c5c1dcc---daxom.pdf
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/73157234479.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087788d3dd1d---buxagoxexew.pdf
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93696955766.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/gijimogupezupolujopu.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuvle195f7hd614e99f8kpdrt2/35438792338.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010337.bin
687eca47626334f9ff00b8b060b3248c1da64ab8c2100c4be3757fa194f4def5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10337 20764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013b67.bin
064cec7f1641637ce4229b9e8dd976fb309218e62960364720d36c9c1cea8812
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B67 11220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015549.bin
325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15549 16084 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00016a75.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A75 16792 bytes