Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18291307f239e793…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ac49a0d909f8838a80c0df2c4baeb328 SHA-1: cad9a8620cd98c55465312a75d810041aae55fb7 SHA-256: 18291307f239e7939a694d75925a76a7822e387eae3825ae73134a66c00eeb14
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging external links to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39426555442.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8ed0d98bd---88248416747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/45118467255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf0e9c60c662c552e021e996f39ad20/50970695108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9598101657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/20474002157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ef3fc632d---57224758564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210617151349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o3lpjbgj9got5ks2e92oobn5k/98754251261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t9fa9362g2cut8cqoas6s4565/30022201151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/kojaxowujekojagoxosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/75852618561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4985ee7e8d1d855b941474b0c5f45769/velovazevujigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/jawamewofozibirasunapise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/giwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8310b2f5a3---93753545609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81998897749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2268389800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/darinuledomexunewebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pde29v8c10mdke77orqo6o7sig/fuxujisexomubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5666f361f1b5fc4566a91a88f1675640/96895543794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71768788004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqpe20g25tvh8rerp7ibcrkbo1/70706569252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1586556291---lunofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210610_182049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72a1784df95aecb4bde324ff8e530dcd/80014260416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/70024328741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=karcher+sc4+user+manualPDF 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_off0001058e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058E 19616 bytes
SHA-256: af18a776511a4d8df6867846cf9937ec22e2faa31dc1cc80129e6d51ec4fcf13
font_01_sfnt_off000139b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B8 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 0ccc8bb1044e1a396add5ebd8ebcb51ff5bd7931e55dae483f11d47322efbca9
font_02_sfnt_off000150f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1