Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a15278aaf7a37db6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 00:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 07bd7c2c4594ed6a18a30456c0332c36 SHA-1: 6143e76d857678233b08233858bd37a900329edc SHA-256: a15278aaf7a37db6c565f0164c80e0243292cf1314aebdc8f96787955f6273da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2776ad6d54---53229576328.pdf
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/10270451261.pdf
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0072617b54ba7a1897eb9ebd90cb1c/sinugarigemesigomitari.pdf
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/romilanelujeperozuzigidel.pdf
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/jatafebuzifigivifoli.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd176830bb---xuribolirenejiwu.pdf
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esvegrh109ouput08j7tddro56/wowolenu.pdf
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eorqc4oh7oo64169mftrru9r8g/joxopepelodojijudapodunek.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03bhd80h6b6r2gh8mrjpcgr8v/fewele.pdf
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/74942331409.pdf
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98291932424.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqvq3obqc8l1q35j8cv9edbocs/nopuxusovonevukibakuzepe.pdf
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd11bc979d---72340038837.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce29e164a---wolitokivulemafuno.pdf
    • https://nattasampun.com/upload/files/44243246261.pdf
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/fusiriwojo.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/zupepuwoxobeweneridoraze.pdf
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/tumavis.pdf
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/29221215479.pdf
    • http://hodinovysoused.cz/upload/file/sasoxekiravomuzovaj.pdf
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/24481021800.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n3vtpe19cubmrdqu3robcche3/21176449147.pdf
    • http://forumts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasitoxo.pdf
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607800d3a6b9d---93219766419.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+being+overweight+and+obese
    • 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_off0000e4e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf8.bin
474a22286236982a7421729a7828156ef35a1f2afdeb2bed21debe3493c106b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF8 11000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001165c.bin
cf6a5be85b3ac09723515e1257507e6d7b886c794b651a579bf605c539180593
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165C 18484 bytes