Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c815514f301f00da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 07:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8056bae0733f57c72244f362119311dd SHA-1: 8b0536ec648c1ee327f71be0ab3e5de29f844847 SHA-256: c815514f301f00dab4db5a113ea670d5aef3d07d8423a96ec6701b0b29939d97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/vogomawakozaroluzo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ae09c85bd2be569bf940bf48b73250/41794808424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87475983b---17527759460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091571d38dfb---28580234756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/tiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/giwiwadizewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f21457130b---lexugomukapoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/27367573314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/71716795028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1622158202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934ae8c45ed---wakabolaliwinafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086670880db3---66805478113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/47104647222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/80844923158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/pifiwibodivejolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9vnodpakitm94ve1592c58ba/50550528802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/wogovinewelavedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe0gkq16u6tmrg4vhn1cplsbj0/75579940669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/jekuginudajizizakoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f9b9877c4e139e18b57a4155da70f8/joxisozenatudikilewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb9d4a1bd1---9894258427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f53a323013c6e3bc24455edb8fa75a/gijodafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/35294813361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c7d2562d5---32367037940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=watch+online+hollywood+dubbed+movies+on+mobilePDF 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_off0000ccba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCBA 16532 bytes
SHA-256: f8d3540235fc4b2c81550739f08308c4e9bff5e3cd61ab3655d73f76fcc76aaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B7 11036 bytes
SHA-256: bdf6c6704caf9aed31f307854bed9f615538eab0908f1e0881b19b11eb1b1327
font_02_sfnt_off00011145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11145 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1