Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 915eebdb5bc26bcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 02f8b579b79b11b5709ba6bb4c8716ec SHA-1: cc5b701cf33238b17ac6229cb08a71a9ab239f72 SHA-256: 915eebdb5bc26bccb7fbd59edcfd016487101c2547392a9baf5e28164b17a6f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many distinct hosts and URLs strongly implies a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081576f943de---solajebuxosikevila.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd76efe84---95516122662.pdf
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/domopejevogabuvuda.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e148369e7---vural.pdf
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77709453030.pdf
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/16030046597.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef6cab5e40ba603666f66b152ee32ca3/13285220283.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ad39d19a5581a5015c650bd28e7641/19052378112.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cc0e75c1249fe55f0712ff6276e88c/98930246112.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d83bae223---nizarujem.pdf
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/36519153397.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa6d3a9045---xaboluvebusigasubamos.pdf
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b96807573---xapobizum.pdf
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/27790822619.pdf
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210621191333012814fc72vs.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca4415f598---fofitopiposu.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c21e5db860---kodepufesizivirinun.pdf
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/tavepefuvilijinowegosazo.pdf
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/97756339569.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b388811a0---bigubuxojevazopuwe.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/tesefatekukizipipubig.pdf
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/gitupa.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce49b87592c---24657405132.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+1+thessalonians+5+18+mean
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013953.bin
8be16376e2230eb1f73e6f4d5c696b38171b4559d730c36021190d9087ee6321
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13953 10800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001521c.bin
b6bd92ea0b3b0689e6bba1c86cb9f5431daf8c2709e9db50928c10545cc146ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521C 17544 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017fce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FCE 16792 bytes