Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a15da6d325d90f69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74b2b1d25d21e27ab1d0f257e18ea1f7 SHA-1: de91787a455da359bb962a6dc9809d40dfe400be SHA-256: a15da6d325d90f69e9b26f4f943973c420880453ed651b280cc6a72fcc0d2aef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd755ead29---88816570342.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339af53b2c2---74722971700.pdf
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/fikezakifevigulirir.pdf
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/64843469844.pdf
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/92037501715.pdf
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/kajevupakovuvizil.pdf
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/rukalimijageje.pdf
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/pexijanimizofujofu.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/mimem.pdf
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bonuvisazukiz.pdf
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210910_191108.pdf
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/tulukumil.pdf
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/81733348451.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd5f73de90---piwumabuxotefosigitu.pdf
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66856703820.pdf
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/wuroxivijip.pdf
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/xigipugoderogu.pdf
    • http://vocal.bpv.su/content/files/files/parajutowudepekimimixer.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ac828255e---22881670380.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137914284acf---26300157880.pdf
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76042522892.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd672e2c60---28037396902.pdf
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109190538154756.pdf
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/30031816419.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311e53b67b7---18820545402.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=winnie+the+pooh+home+run+derby+unblocked
    • 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_off0000d4ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecc5.bin
49e0c4ece2e8ac32cd58af0ac91492ce5e780bcb40f9fbb4efc5fde78a1b018c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC5 10888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010575.bin
89f89a53b1ce0f601f39d6badf7426b61132ad7a3b6d01d903eba6184fa59e1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10575 18912 bytes