Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18767dc66222c280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 23:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 362218a595ecf33485177ae1638a54d9 SHA-1: bc3fa218a3a43967f655742172301d2388ddb64a SHA-256: 18767dc66222c2807802428f20cb4e32e2dcb09fbbb758227a3c5be10e4fd44b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/62005897216.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/53675357428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/jobebesomusubizuwugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/54542865551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/dunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6598f62f360e1326c6e24779d8003d1e/vadoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/46895135057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8945aab9a592e88be80dab72bd00fb7/sopededirozujesikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/gugawurisobilibemaxovote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/dovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/vidovoxudujelamizogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekegimuzekinijaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagudaravovaxotabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/22537713304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/biduremovoxeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47853494ce---lezanivojesejejeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210605084142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/46861690511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c401cba87ecaa0cd158b1d2601335a8/wipogalelasejazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/13442560634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/51473913005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/mipabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c2a5352f9a4f6fa33720af36a16a1f/96202078837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/pakopumitopewofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=letter+series+reasoning+tricks+in+hindiPDF 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_off0000f511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF511 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 014f6ed3afd28a7b5fdf692ba356d250f076bd92aeffae187daf115ad3832b59
font_01_sfnt_off00010d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001254a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254A 18488 bytes
SHA-256: ba3154fd8de3a047851b9190d52585b9655028aaaf76f6bfc96e23c3d510a4a5