Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15ea76bbcc28053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ff687b407758f453bd51d8c29352f705 SHA-1: 5fc5468937a547c2e3544d3d35a59e1713b0b120 SHA-256: c15ea76bbcc28053acf4e2ccde63c43edd8d9ee5d04bd7467b286ad80bd9d64e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=addition+and+subtraction+worksheet+for+year+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/danavimibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/72273808341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyuco.com/uploadfile/files/20210819_122051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a662a90fe33---mevulili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/85205650430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107f567b660e---pifitorage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///dafuwokemata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021061320153473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607938a8b45ad---79346680299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25586587000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/lugipiwino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/pezoweralogobogesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91280719811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/36029437085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/mamuxisasufamilivavutali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078316579c03---xazobutizuzajeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a4c3815ce10aada329750387e85f84e/vimozoxolabivutorokijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/75157282897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/redota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58091681291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/52739467268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/78929788909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22e6d7cdab---xemezugeguxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/64180302580.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_off0000e893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE893 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 26549fe273e61ef5aad51ac083288ea681c01c2874d884fb584a6df78e73c2d4
font_01_sfnt_off00011751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11751 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 46d6895e71ccf3d1618e85d7bf0434bd1cf7bfdc6e40b224959da146ab08e096
font_02_sfnt_off00013153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13153 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1