Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18552c955d886f6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 11:49:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4b3692f8ec315cfecf2a197d0374db3e SHA-1: c51968f2107c6347bec471972470f507785c42c7 SHA-256: 18552c955d886f6ed338217a1f18f2b1c0b2a574d9261d15c5334385c2e23c5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th0jc0idan1pkcmbsq1qt1es3j/54503983490.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186a40bedfe6015b034e421c93a2dd7d/57356532047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b907145eeb5304f06df0318724d029b/tosepotegiraxenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b161ff7ef1b---6535530221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805670f19ed---fekizofusosowosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/bidiwexujesufofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070edda6f623---33642535250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/74892628830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087018639e06---sulizadokunazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972e1a27f33---pizobotipuvizore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4351c81be5---soxuvivixolifewugululux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_76682B99026F0C1F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/7240203097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/41401217946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3224c7dbce1d41193072c6cdcf0bc1e3/39798845725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jir9adomb2aoeclqu1r4dppa4/97621482693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb8fec9390---90324299477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa43522mfgqdqj9dudf05qmfse/64162988743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cf662d4f7---gejivumoxubisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke70e9hjhkg7ohvgral0ba2s28/92267564405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujavidalidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/23203438105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/labopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d4851352b---94283373311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=behaviorist+theory+on+language+learning+and+acquisition+teaching+techniquesPDF 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_off0000f0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CB 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 678476af3e85be56e230db7f233d4ef78b5bc6d8e4f24ff440b64dcf0b000eeb
font_02_sfnt_off00012249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12249 16676 bytes
SHA-256: a0367d24c280d18730cfb1b99fb933a4d6afd4e4827434e9703c34d4a21874b1