Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15a02adb853c990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:59:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d76eaa356a8ba44f670a5e0a9895e762 SHA-1: fb4cc19cac2a309fe5ffa54b23301c83f06e0312 SHA-256: c15a02adb853c99057bfe74b5f3f28d3da1f3b66e141228746b6660d52726661
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to mislead users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccad66497b---mafubaweju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d1a7bdb5ad088243a7c27af7b697ab/66493807938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fae5a9aa9c---salixeluxiverowazuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/88357386023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/52207636101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4f82a0d71---46383284492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759a54e1a44---88387049084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b4c98cef60cc52fbbd6e09d282c735e/wiferemujusagijesewagediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e168b22e507bb87347a438366d16feef/86771909453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/dilamojadotebunipixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d36bab19721---29988422599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea87ca1d11---lutubetalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cstdrd36fcfscb1ud0p6c47il2/83696053263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da01893203446a6cb40cc325f4f701b2/17788096568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/jalenuxikigaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a72f7a5ca868ae15341466fdc50eaa/2307359185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eeb703ea48---17660925108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca997352760acb382b1f1c3844de23f/27234870776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ed70cbc79---nozirojabodubapuvuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39e65326c5252226505ed3ac2f7a838/19117883775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a4d4a9019---vabosanuzawaxajipomomadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e494886724967856a11157c619caa941/93856451006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091967ec7c17---96767315106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0395912001624487664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=946gzt+am+motherboard+manualPDF 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_off0000fb07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB07 17252 bytes
SHA-256: d1cd664ffed498aca39ea2e9e14ad7d653f4e73a393671b6292c8f17aa8fa699
font_01_sfnt_off0001281f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14036 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 2bcb047df1403c73efeb1fb88a5bff4fb089cca9322b1b32a0bbf450da2c2d21