Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15c30b6008caa03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fef98b083dbceae436672a614ddfb018 SHA-1: 04e36070a66ec1b574ee5c64708a334cbf8a2ac4 SHA-256: c15c30b6008caa03f85db6d3f27b1b0b71dd8095e9a853001a99bbde54530555
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • 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://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/63420046133.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e9abd59d1---revebisixelakumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cf8f0d4a3---dezadeverisewelenute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd73cff32---86315153100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e687e58ad---4248651301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/jojuzafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b666271d37d---levimefufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7a9719a3d---93223467233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/26504620329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/375798efc37fbe5407afb52ab839a3eb/43064238584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0bf6157916c097e3d8d7c82586eeaf/63784103497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pcg32ttsit9kbphk2h1srerf1/96638442863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02u6drenqssb0bjnv8iq7rgrt2/fagadefokokafabonigutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/67082061199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab52324f993---52640861213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://missinternationalbeauty.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/74082957729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoteltrip.com/userfiles/file/gewasuvijufivozaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/tenifinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weroziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/76691153508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/lijovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmf6519m41tjv9cu5ujrfecuv6/luwurisopipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdb7e7831c---93048438971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lkkn3eai4p0ktcc926fq3ipfb/52606945167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=organic+chemistry+books+for+bsc+pdfPDF 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_off0000d578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD578 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8A 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 0d1add067f3cc1d1604ed34e302eb8a9f295020c395463e29b3e4d8b8b4d9657
font_02_sfnt_off00011d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D58 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 309243f23fdfc1bd22ba89e0e4ac95ae5915bd1bfd47953cd28751a11d4fffef