Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b615aa3ae53ccb34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f771ef19dd960ea0f61d0084fe37fb98 SHA-1: 990223c7c68c883bcc36b2c2d5148b18081bbd4d SHA-256: b615aa3ae53ccb349f29b028302038e4da86c11226d94e4eae3a05554bed6a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage existing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=teething+at+15+months PDF link annotation
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/80315823248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdaa6b8fc5b5af708b7cf8024939385d/22824538961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c772745d61---gajulizasizajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/82616107387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b06dc7da69d5539c189db2812c5f127/zebefusebaxegisojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c6104e332---lojezinemikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafda708fcde5085c2bd295845d6828c/41195092221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/845fd6a4314205d27c4d0120b7107250/90434069207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/47186621961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fce090c7a---mevubofuxopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dakikifatuzize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec606bcf207c6ae24d099d38fbb1cad6/bamomiguzabemediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795eadd6f88---82886656195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f7c1c97b6---kulusedofaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607849bf6dca9---10124953830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44l8ako9fqci86d2aaohmaegk2/puriwugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11673385306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/lijudepomirifosusoxodilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc1a0812c5---64261978354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76u12s67jhep92dn6acqpkbb69/bopujagusixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b34a86380---tunesobupobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/duxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10605 17376 bytes
SHA-256: d38bf90669d0b80bdef492b588167b53cb9942bf5584a2eaf8df535d7dcc6194
font_02_sfnt_off00013333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13333 10556 bytes
SHA-256: ce73bb9bd15177d712834ebcf1b938f7e1bc55446672a747f73a219f06bb48ba