Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15c0f4b60765a05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:27:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 290bf1f3b57ca0b18ad505534fc563c8 SHA-1: 6bd008816de81e7085551c7f917b981df6af813e SHA-256: c15c0f4b60765a05476909ba24f207cd1e83437e427a4624485daf7c71ce5624
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gcam+iphone+7+plus+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladulexarotipatefane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1724c5b7f81134849af16f71181ae7d/94263507899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402e2bcaf74---33914776832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/83599815162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botaierpharm.com/upload/files/30701149735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/79634555364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35773217692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5418949066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/31635569037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/bujita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babajopegifumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/ximopusogirimasekasasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-c-t.com/userfiles/file/bofefatunatapumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b53e2b01653784f24d451f2836d4242/mibasemopunaberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_D6D677AF7370AEAD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/bekuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/vimusumasunazasukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314f2b1a878---bojiburijivefofobawiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/pifofisekorugirunipomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivelinabozilova.com/userfiles/file/kivajovizulajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/dapudixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134370058f3c---48343991756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/27129125467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhonthip.com/file_media/file_image/file/pegivupagoxasegomot.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_off0000d908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD908 10720 bytes
SHA-256: d7d8cf03f1c8bc45a7511a298f538f9eb919aaa3e0232ea50326858fd5260eb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF181 18176 bytes
SHA-256: d08797e4dde95f291a2c3a91d4bbb219064d4e1fe55331d3793f66e021c634dd
font_02_sfnt_off000120c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1