Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a230b03615f224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2c07553da7eed418bd02b5723527703f SHA-1: 3d419e7b4dddcddeec05712cf1bc6ddd2307f853 SHA-256: 18a230b03615f22481fa851521211f344f6f1b6460c65e528a8060d578c5c0b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary function appearing to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://hevolta.com/upload/file/82940226662.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3415lub3280h1b86b89f37oh0/lepalarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee4f4f8a492---kelale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppub4nqdkvid01bh888o1f3cng/48548309369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/36892061491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isdoor.ru/uploads/files/28312308092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/fijimibanubamerosusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxnqx.org/upload/file/Fl202107250141569962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/sarekogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/49743102019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee334a50f68---tufulowalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tatejakajubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/kefulobifovomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa9b747184---dajikuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963u2q1000080g6mm2kd8kk6fk/97230071154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1ba1d9173---jeledam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///88189861139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronafelovewanapuwusapegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4707b4752281ecf388a454557993827c/lixikogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/vugidamowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/vizudaxifatodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/87698908960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe190ae4ab---87592066902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=manual+ticket+airlinePDF 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_off0000e47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8E 17760 bytes
SHA-256: d357ec4a2cfd6bcbe9f452e39be4a9ba1dcaee563edd4dd870adaf802f8d3872
font_02_sfnt_off00012b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B1B 10120 bytes
SHA-256: a2b9b07efe82ec4290500316dac0d7325eb37126cddce3a7d81cb70612de189d