Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18aee4b2f1997fad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 96388f778a800f48f2e657245e24cd5b SHA-1: e55465f2d69e966b93090d3eb4fc94fc69adaf2c SHA-256: 18aee4b2f1997fad5506668375f0dec192b4d560fb2517cf30165f3520cbbe22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9917

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brevet+2018+sciences+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ba4ec09cb---5025038935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613049b1e972c---67477073745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4c33ec5d0---61856205768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba6fca5847d8798bac6c2b124a0f1a7/41640408270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/menali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/vizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/43290953007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2748d6184097530bb71d8546861b788c/51760681978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/fososavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/2701896829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/gopidanegudupiloxepewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782e88044e2---2561796830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f118c4933---lobatutumevorubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/xuwewowamijezedofunaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a552fd24bd9---fifimadefinewajobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedegobevazujomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/6144065322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ef5c61e3b---mudirofoboraxaginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/36574395419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745ea7ad3fd---95815704692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slanfusa.org/clients/47225/File/guvuzujezupekakunakobete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jupkg58tgo93u91tsn0mqldm47/89674291952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/numosimereted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/fubedexobasemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35308908782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4658a678af7e9021b896f8f867b3caf0/6255670011.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_off0000da86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA86 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 07a2d8b2ae0b9f809c50b8208b23c05f71dea9b1d79539de1290ef6d0ed71780
font_01_sfnt_off00010983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10983 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 7746106b9e41f66562007d2d0042b5efdd266302d4e9f70c5b6a53c48d649974
font_02_sfnt_off00012305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12305 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1