Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0018d2ba00fccd48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 67df64b8ecee6e5771b01690ffb7d192 SHA-1: 8a955af8100ca33e379d2d7cdd6789a2d239368f SHA-256: 0018d2ba00fccd48181db33eb03f32974bd4ebb0bf894c672c71c7ca5f8b4fab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript and link farm likely serve to redirect the user to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parts+of+the+house+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/583ec042ea73e39ba103a6ff342f43a8/mixopanubijososopemulogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/6645252944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3b724b3cceec1dfc2a58d7933282fa7/16724756783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/70164066624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/xolavifugebekivukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069c342211a3591d3552a1abeb4e23ce/zedanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083577418a30---dilutadisesibagudafinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/1934292534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/xudekufupotixobatuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taniverofixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/99264763607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558c0d02f981c08c3cd7ec0607129df4/xojuvabisanuxikakufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09jr5p7ohv07cus22hhp407hg4/77059805166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/512320353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorbolivia.com/userfiles/file/99457280915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/55044023385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210516182913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a9328681e7d318b701fc0ce063d9c0/70946571254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/25541773615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/8236331185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/80714903772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2af0ada33f12efda2a570c3d333999/57651667541.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_off0000d638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD638 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc78c3cf53dde7f3b919fc780926950336aff1eeb25d0c8055b9fe315596310
font_01_sfnt_off0001016a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016A 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 4242281137968f7a5fc3b97171a274d6140d0c489decb7dfa4c1a6cbdb8daba1
font_02_sfnt_off00011915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1