Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff15d4272f34b624…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 834e209a2c033a130c5ff72c5aa4d997 SHA-1: d7ca5a3bd942f53450abbb813bb4a9b8c6ba22e8 SHA-256: ff15d4272f34b6245d73235616c6b5171643acffb32fa4f74a172331f4e72cda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers identify this as malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mario+64+rom+android PDF link annotation
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/6097243684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/44998608022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/70908263043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domoticasociale.it/immaginiNewsletter/file/33853994108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/topokokeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eetravel.net/file/59560164338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckudzcssffhhj.handysociality.com/upload/files/40137529141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/61805426590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokefakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/15137599823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a485b31539---67803108828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/gezinufesipejazoriregub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/kiwepakudotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82574608098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210920193040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pecsimutargygaleria.hu/files/file/68303846787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/ruvosatotatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/141b39cb337f29e4162b94ab73dab1f9/61010040364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/wawonevugutabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138df28437ee---nogutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujebavidevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/33828804969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/bibubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///goposekokaronorijino.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_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 19196 bytes
SHA-256: a0380182369eb2ba1748fb88a20ea6faaf40cd50f3124bad62e4a7b115a5427d
font_01_sfnt_off00010f83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001279a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279A 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 28284e490cafa540caa8dc364839705a155c2b8ba3d1219c18464888083c8c9d