Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15f398f487960c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: deca9985f5482938d256782f83268a34 SHA-1: 61cccc700419793d08af1b7a0362e1cb264a0148 SHA-256: c15f398f487960c3ce43ed2a340a40309e59551dae40c5fc832898990e387491
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phalanges+of+ox PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obfh4sb1274rh3gtf56ada5kja/65171405271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/201246557667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38df8f5f14ac814a65dbcfff1b8d9f4/nokuzelokodatimunubifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/gibogepijuzowovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqqjuc15frq788kuso8cfm53uc/50002958514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/31358558565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03a5e97282---jeferam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u38saph63ljqblsf1hpr77fbal/pokazumigotokikosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/heo07nj7mmlaqajj4cbdpqejg0/fapiduwefivupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f354424a798e4314635b4a379c395c45/fasukowuzokikivones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/26488195511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/73876362205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/zamawiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f329ac470---vipesupurekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084055f6bc85---47172487526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1h4ceqdgnm0sdprts1bvga2nk/sifizozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43brc2gccjpkal5u2remi5fk82/59680673623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4896ec50a6f7fe82e52005d0b625f5ac/vutebebamurosomamozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/vexiparitisudajeduzinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe57e5443a7dc7aa27ef83d7ffffe7c/47187163569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1decba5d13c49eeaf40308daffacbb5e/61274414520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16237800280566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ea0695355---48363771830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/redafusapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fd037c06d---pemaxewafikovaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/remigimedubizagivuroniteb.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000f7e7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xF7E7 18168 bytes
SHA-256: be26937690f6461a165847a772042ddf3e7c2187b485c561945e89bc2cc28987
font_01_sfnt_off00011444.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11444 15376 bytes
SHA-256: 8c271aed035a8b6c809ac141f06544b6f9db84c04316d7427bcae9c19e6ab944
font_02_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000153a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153A7 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 5458564a326c006b39ce0b1813e16e7a2eca001e5319a9decc7428a1a41d66ae