Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c015e99999d62ce7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa322fa937d581b415de039143902012 SHA-1: 4f5fd4a9d4c1e58fe8f1215ae35082710acefaf5 SHA-256: c015e99999d62ce720d9da82d429d45a15da7f931aa21ff62081d848a6d996dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs is a high-priority indicator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+timer+in+lg+dual+inverter+ac+remote PDF link annotation
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60d8e7a5c9901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/59441517999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c86cac0b71---87080440412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/18932079813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282d854c4c322e5e94ef55e931019787/pesubewopopivojufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/relepiniwibaretivusofage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06fcb87218c549b16bd9c50e3b2b6e0d/33798644983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02586ed49156a424a9c9f5f53de67af6/98160120989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/61820511188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/84690808779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5cde25655---kavewowugaxijetonokapago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e1e79d46c3cec47822259a5deba824/41190130464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e44b5f397e713ddfed8dece9aca4c230/wevesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/53381798954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3ae6c18d4---ropavesupujarilomatunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/gididimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/xujejixuripuvole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opc17oo4hrl3pu2gj3qk84fcr2/pifixigadepolasokuzilanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/10913714868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/15494214690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/remawutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4iqns0pfhmpibt4aj7r69srguj/bitowezuwigajejosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032510c76574b39fa3cd9e9a14af0078/95231361843.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_off0000cd91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A3 16120 bytes
SHA-256: ec6b760ff931bbd77a5fb03793702b8bb3aa9bd8afe8c433b66fb8b16ae7d508
font_02_sfnt_off00010f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9A 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0b0674a22096fc8b6f25b6ac5b4982f5656fcbd2c2c612f7ccf49eb6b68be6a1