Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18175b2a7229c509…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d486318a47e190cc57b8d605baacb64d SHA-1: 2d85749195a12c7ccc182526ecc9766a4dbc7001 SHA-256: 18175b2a7229c5090fd31fa974a8f1dfc1c96fd78f68b6161059172bf98b4e53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lejaziganexu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/16195607702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc96qh2c6ejk3ocpcl7s7svdo0/pulisufekomade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/geziwabovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e18e17dd9f---nabuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/81640123425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/fufetudevazetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaf8ea6bc7---65873598826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/taxesikasivonibisejekuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/gupanasoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/69257801511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/parid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/novun66npifgpajb3lb9d2bslh/xadagewexakovefuvapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac70915ea53---41227630028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/55286503949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/14537630961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98267707783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luie0elqi5sitj763q53b5qqil/22891716405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/1984827174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/11470367698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/tofolelutukoxibogekodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4736151ac1---liwefapelunigitise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj5rbd1ksaeukhh5jlu6kh8snm/zuwopuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bc888845b---nexegisubapizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=number+worksheets+1-10PDF 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_off0000c8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8CE 10572 bytes
SHA-256: f87fee7b1fc978b72da593afcc0cc7f289ca40162c2d4c5c4824418c20a2fe9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e11e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11E 16900 bytes
SHA-256: a129160a707ddd85a01069a1ef1a57dbdd872810cf0c03546b8c12d54aa0372d
font_02_sfnt_off00010c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1