Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18b7a1807a93dcb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-20 07:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6e865f9dadb6fe34711f4229217f65db SHA-1: 7dd7122e34977e2623c01542d8499a578ed2e298 SHA-256: 18b7a1807a93dcb5ddc5c675a4b48f742088c1ebdbd8dd2fddc6f93e674ec586
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with URLs such as http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a0e446e11b57cfaaa3a9964e074d69/tasuja.pdf, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'autocad 2018 free download student version', indicating a lure for potentially unwanted software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4vjvgfqn9qiuqggan5hs0hp60/jotugikodazot.pdf
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/86699771041.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4571ae719da82fb1f5d2c79134418f1a/8011806997.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/78256697809.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30fgsvdcqatmnt9dbt674mom4g/nawutugegoze.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090abcecdcd1---jamitoxibuxesiwoxetewox.pdf
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/nipukir.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f73925b4c7ebdca6d8cf51235ed3811/torupajus.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c853134f59d---17350751058.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7797e28f920b9fcd353b03dbca9106/22090517277.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add5748ea84---fiwageb.pdf
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/5519349667.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a0e446e11b57cfaaa3a9964e074d69/tasuja.pdf
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/62417950757.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089861de36c3---92477081548.pdf
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/16793768717.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+2018+free+download+student+version
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e507.bin
2d7cbfc26e0936c2b510c3c2617bc66815ef59e9e6789d750b40b309b46fae0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE507 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f88a.bin
bbd589259f3fdc017c6086a020aa420f081352afd214f17200fa5b195f939427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88A 11824 bytes