Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18903e3a4e8e1037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 02:30:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 41ee8ffb0673a6c1b20deef62b6149ec SHA-1: 67446f61c739b2b37e67c52b181313be5fb7ce94 SHA-256: 18903e3a4e8e10371b186656133b03cd7fbf00ba4560f5233c69579096a1ad92
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of external URIs and a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alien+attack+team+2+unblocked+games+66+at+school PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41049c526aa095fe5f25b9d5a912efa0/83769801822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075802289ebb---17357293859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070036286ae7---dezazuvujowerurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/48043748837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/xubegovodirinulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19d8fafaeb---noxetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/31606563287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/64760623631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021062009423791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4i0mkrb8bc7qmhq5271s985alp/30686282466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/sodelazelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/94233505769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwifajubiduratejanabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7cbb8d11464f29f2309693b7a6f7ae6/68424179952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/vexijagimanasojinedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2d8a5bf8769d6a6328c14f2bd4f0ea/8635207959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/89606498646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrisoilvietnam.com/upload/files/lusopola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/46165203041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/78009863525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c605d2a97---45181410901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/bimuzofibogekitadajobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc2c669f9b---2260705432.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_off00010fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA8 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 542f8de299fe2086750dff195b84c8efc882329f01b0cc5ced05455ab1efbca1
font_01_sfnt_off000129ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EA 22360 bytes
SHA-256: 3e5fce0ee4ad9c276bb122a698bbef1c379acf6625f075a3b37e72e9eb3409d8
font_02_sfnt_off0001600e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1600E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1