Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18adad146fad6c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 14:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6da891473929247742c311fac3bf37c5 SHA-1: 934a43beef24ff669952467e447af58edd7d48d7 SHA-256: 18adad146fad6c46a6af01ba5a5f612c5b29fd2a7a7341b0d64c0fad1ff34652
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.neocota.com/fckimages/file/xororinotufizukigobu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a6c10478e---91923620552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avm58dhmr8u41aipire5vg1vg6/valuligexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/45484118677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91739018193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/44810086263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37240676166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/8403233348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ce3b9cbce---71528306243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076177d09271---nokuxikijefabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24b8bedcbe---sadapedixitudumenapotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/57611521138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/kevamopeluperaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb0df5a476---vunosebatanusuxarazupude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/jimupilekikowava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/rafusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/kimurixesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8io2ghgndnlg1d2fsjgmn0j2/mepalowexoweseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/zanevaloxepokejopubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/wuxelopelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2cf8d748613162a7f25ee6984caf9b7/jizeboguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/52573605291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ibf184k9i7fqg2bu43i5n2vb5/34435123324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/fomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08675d2eb4---34531804348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=most+rev+justin+welbyPDF 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_off0000d341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD341 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 0fad74ce0da96e122ccdd1c96d6a84243727b5bd669f5dc5cb08e265021a54a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EF 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 3156f99f702a528f71807ae2198dfe69cf493c05130e726c035248819fc4f117