Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18ae5f99bd48abaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.3 KB Created: 2021-05-25 07:03:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 368579747e5db870237aab9064ea6d0a SHA-1: ce71cc6312a72242dacc5423360c8dedfc321617 SHA-256: 18ae5f99bd48abaa66842ba33e3c3860a182c7ed668afee8cfc2bcc216f36888
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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 http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acm1q61d78me46bkup7cc04a17/duvaxebevixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/fituvabaxenubale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/tirofunaxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2da8efbef2a67664244a98f80ef45d/80375755094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f188f5421e2fce8c90da7ee6f334d8eb/wineruzuzobunuvekexale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71260vosasdijrjj7pueol0sol/mufavifopugutode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0d00c7e8---5628920647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5364d7a0b---pidupovimotorivede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/48889250304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/turupedamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h2qijlq4m70r6r1iafi3b03bd/fawogijatibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609895e236ef9---1640512759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b5b6884481611979ff97096ceef1f9/7915696576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d56cb4683d---jovukujesamuzore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/162cb640530ff659bbaf840e3c9dbcbe/ruliwoxigipafakodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ecaf5cd898e067d80e20cacf1d07894/81542770475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634e7khlmt2s8pihtmo40kkrlr/simiwokivubagutoverarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2honkc93uaqfe6tp4pdctavr4h/sirodesokunemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=comportamiento+organizacional+robbins+resumen+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BC5 5568 bytes
SHA-256: a27318f0b5dc4ae322ad75dcc3171ffebd4a5297c6d83c1357d359e436d08fdf
font_01_sfnt_off00019e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E9A 12992 bytes
SHA-256: 3843f6e85d681a2c4c16c8355068c23677d5cc3e8c5480ff12952eedec01b954