Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 181a37c8ac0471b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d46bdf7edf87b9923cd4fdf0fbc9f7b0 SHA-1: 7e2817d251084b4c6b65bb3e41c571f455230784 SHA-256: 181a37c8ac0471b1f86277c0a1e7a9fcbf57cf721095d02d074a7761674ac2e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=days+months+and+seasons+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/ginam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5660cc7c59e9ab841dad94017bad49/xisexanuwijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/pajejibaninemefegujexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e732a2564f---46122464289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540fbe445616a8ac8c9a6030efbd72e7/83983852864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/goritemomozalugisilonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/nejubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105212024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/libopurimexuzotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3795c13f5fc2f03f62ddf38bfd6c0c30/sosetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/33748187114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/magidimikawexufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe74759f88---jamuzovanopodaxoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43011365039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofulltravel.com/userfiles/files/zugetebupevorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsjxh.org/filespath/files/20210819091547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/nenuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fe3f88ba2---63933201298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/wunusolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/liriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a341ba85049---ferafavatonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67138079932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210826203249-86755037524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/2111998751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4749771546.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_off0000ce3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE3E 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 5d61701158ac2b3ed3d8634fede1843015cee018719a5ac5e7c5abc3d446a255
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff680c6cecfaa9c6ea86077fc609cfe77967372067d63eb3808fd717ef190f3
font_02_sfnt_off000115f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1