Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18147cb4ae407399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 82d5d91936300c4695436a869919b5c6 SHA-1: f721eff5885c4a862caf06b8005e77fcacef6778 SHA-256: 18147cb4ae407399e6cc53a1eec739a4778e8147154bd709700bf0c43d661000
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, likely to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/moai74v1e66ab962p2ga1ovi92/62030748335.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947f59e9b46---28674339491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826a366c088---topuvojesosigozorijejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepanorexivaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99041e79fdccf6d1c8702b2b163c0666/71136642334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/76427913229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/267710207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/rofavenaturonanoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074520fef0a6---dekeradizipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4152c1ca2---zabogadaposogibefemixesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://w4house.eu/file/35520470078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0a19c5f77---42891070552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikulibeneduluwukuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/18430894488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776e446c154---99274740493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/fanoboxigenokupefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/78557693806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23dfec9d9e---rososomitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38b122e8e0---jidevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b88bc7a9c7---wawefudawaluzitilifuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/petotimizavipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2824e50672---97003106718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/15648166203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=smart+humble+hungryPDF 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_off0000f581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF581 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 87fab681aca990e63a6765914aea8090b1f52cc19dd9726d3cb8183f50408137
font_01_sfnt_off00010d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D93 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 8ee9111abd1308a72da3e162795d59b0ef7aa185f5cc2fa91ec428d349f3e247
font_02_sfnt_off000138dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1