Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e15568878f50581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d352731ac40cfb741f462ae5b6ee9883 SHA-1: 1ed4045ae44ace7427ba18a232b0e3d62036a5d9 SHA-256: 5e15568878f50581f132e6bb1bea8c1ce431693924445f61caeabaa75e5872e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malicious content or engage in phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL destinations suggest a downloader or redirector pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_F00692BDCE44E234.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614683ec6f695---67515087086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/613caef6cc5a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epilia.com/upload/FCKEditorfile/fazilotebove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fc999db30---vuwasixapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/zulapovapadoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f98783a620---nitowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/43342632676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/kununapedudidesitanotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/pepodexisujebewaviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/majivoxozegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97074351539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowmangocafe.com/userfiles/file/satiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/baxerinowebugamirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.de/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/devir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detanofeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/jekenekedepixitobezovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sojukepokuzepiwemapuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/4482749591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/wovofimasonudawulogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/fatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8704946006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekinyalitim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/votosonixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/gusezuvozosuwozugiloguril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panel2conso.com/userfiles/file/fexekurulenisegekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38336580694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=come+play+with+me+1977+full+movie+onlinePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 11020 bytes
SHA-256: d296ce79b2adc8d04e322aba75aff396031b6df854ffbfe55a00812873c63ace
font_01_sfnt_off000125e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF9 17832 bytes
SHA-256: a513af8ee0f76686a5fa92ede6cdb3aba7a6c7ee0b647a96ef7aff21c9a3cf21