Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18167c067a5562a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:15:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3cf5eb34a3cf2f554bdb56f7451760ba SHA-1: fa5c6204df03221288f51bc81056dd0e63bd85a2 SHA-256: 18167c067a5562a85021141e7f5688063885b4b185e81470ad85e039ae4588ef
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service, likely to trick the user into opening it. The document contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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 http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8c2207db---zilexenigibamik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/zawijutaxuvulovege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e7c7e348556db7a391fd14ab6419d7/xelurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/16788824901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/tuwarinizebogopixetemaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/jagimisudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rajomanefobasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/teder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/71789810937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/xudomexaropurive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/vudepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/rerizofufiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/1247916802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/piwikapeduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d517aaa83046edb6efe59999f350113/5554453969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60042329481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/titarububelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc88c6fa77371fdc4ca15a0ae9bc9728/16351654033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63dd9b4987---foluzutaluzewadamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebb039b3ff---riwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1628247524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13572141464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=indesign+online+pdfPDF 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_off0000d604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD604 19044 bytes
SHA-256: 079d47eaea4fb68919f3dd9adac9128ff175d5f5acde22407e7751d2be04fbfe
font_01_sfnt_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 29a3470e70323c6fbb470f332e31e451d7cf9a2f4ea20955ed1906cdf6419cd8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1