Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c150e833179593dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 73aa9e19b0396599bbe1c712feb3a369 SHA-1: c61005f5aa8cfed549d6639a9ab304524a2972f6 SHA-256: c150e833179593dde5740fd35e30d3d552ba522e6a7c2080cc86c10562b13109
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and direct IP addresses, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/10717328161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be522ec3e3---61320892605.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d1dd3ad1e---3929598072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/250144004103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/sawunotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8acc90f074b030a2981a7b9437609825/nulodisegeketesamajopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnb3rmttkoq59ke85v2ksaab8e/rinenurure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e8696cd34---zozupewonipujeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/vojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf289e8281---3274600329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/94019192180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0bef57d3d8f0c92dde8163af304dda/numinuruwotigereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/dokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab58636a31a28861dc535d2ef75ee73/48613418648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7133195872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/riravudawudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/bopizadejabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/24694003717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/bilepusupepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebde7add1d---sepozawanimojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210714084351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160859498cff9e---82776656032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=alleviate+in+tagalogPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF835 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 3c36dd886b1cb8cf758bde516bcb836b4cee20256d33607fcb0e394a6189cbc9
font_01_sfnt_off00010eba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBA 17988 bytes
SHA-256: fd42feb1f171f535c1e85dfdb6156071d01235580a4e2a45381d21abe1ebe250
font_02_sfnt_off00013d63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1