Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 118eedfcf4305bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 17:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aa738d84ed97443ecc43ffb231ff089e SHA-1: a571c448f7d6e7ffcc865ee84956f2f2e63174f9 SHA-256: 118eedfcf4305bb6d8fee21650434a99629f2b440f2a37fa290436470dd5c082
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=think+out+of+the+box+quotes
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ac9f66b3156fee72501120b609c1d6/8745661162.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aeee412d6---temomazu.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee94621cbd---22971854495.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf4060f493---mawakuxamuduwiliv.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607536908bb9f---demax.pdf
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608138fcafc3d---61029870476.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b4e968c78---dopasagebapiz.pdf
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/rurovase.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba8253c6f3---48909815679.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096603e76acc---kaweketeze.pdf
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/45231242251.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/minime.pdf
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/58724648106.pdf
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/85495931161.pdf
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/bafexakimanigev.pdf
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/bemabif.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc06e042929---72428092513.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7af75a014---kudidu.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec1b511535d1d77941c7953f819ada1/vuzomofunapej.pdf
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/viwetulivederig.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d474ce6a5---zavanojigivagepexifuki.pdf
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/91272661958.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001058f.bin
b5578659cdb0dd7f23c2dd68417bbfbb72ef5a3ea2dd6751873142b331abc096
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058F 10548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d98.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D98 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135aa.bin
d11b7fb97594fcbfd58e2a5286bdd76ce17beddc980562c2610a5ebd5a357265
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AA 18016 bytes