Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 007191818613191d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6618a7814b5d3e32c34063fad39bf6de SHA-1: 40c9bd6fcf1747ba08ec580331298a8a2ab335b6 SHA-256: 007191818613191d49c8a330bfa0fc7ad833612d51a3168e05b5d58a8cf6b707
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or link-farming attack. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns point towards a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+bible+say+about+being+filled+with+the+holy+spirit PDF link annotation
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/97430492796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64d175576f---27829207468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987875171d8---34439029794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof68.com/clients/73441/File/72880114159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbef208023d773aeef77ea295bddea7a/vukusazuwexufonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/2970169185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ceeb870d2bc7e435ed91ee1dcf15c8/89958169279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef982319dfa53297c20342004f56b3e/merul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fa6c6da24bcdeda4d61612a9a9e4649/54206576031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9350bf5a0e04c2f05089e9c0fc39dd00/49175883466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82376dcfe71916232fcc13a2f3486ba3/naxokunegemawarigaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58f56f4b082a498c15f9cb1f6f4e3ab/firokofekedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98216821975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096587dd73d8---fokuwumariganuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/vulikubepexamoxisogised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/71284891489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9da395924---monexozibivatagexenuzevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/89750248805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/luvapokorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2704d6cacfac01c8fd97fed44c9797/bedaxodelofufawevubibawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/penorabozivudedebixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9f29ee4db---93667778635.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_off0000eae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F9 11208 bytes
SHA-256: be7ed54f45884af0f3a1e603ebc8b38aeeb31bb6d091828fc7bbaba2300feafd
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC3 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb416ef75421628c6e5ab00d64511dbc5268e35a5d818a0b981814ec9af0150