Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18bee855f5184876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-10 17:34:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1bb63b53d42a93474174eba149d852cd SHA-1: 0d07ec77513fc2da100caaf6723937f5c73e981d SHA-256: 18bee855f5184876c1a7e9c27b169130535abba3f68cb10a888cd2f58a800cec
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into visiting these malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uptj1vo4p6c6uqur8ko5mg8fpc/48816520161.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/suvurerevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/nikegunadepililalasipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/bapotonabilozefenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77011688381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d26192556e65937d88a3bb95fbbed404/1649844731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/rurigodujutusasewira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94e92c4309---zegejozafakire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/78696598550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f11fc1ee706---midepazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojebaxijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a6151e44551344a5a1da06441426334/gapulemobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/kewapadalenunolovararudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/45852191065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livilgirls.com/files/99372682830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74497be0e1df7b1d4e1c7006e1e766fc/31358106789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e55eb8b99fb---66869976024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/41429371397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d410d4e3da1---90683120846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8297b3c950---80709384755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/12244892582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nobejevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/vanubavipetadexodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2facfe0ef7b76f188dfef4eea4d46dd1/bepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+solve+for+net+forcePDF 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_off0000ff02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF02 16840 bytes
SHA-256: e5fb0b1cbf013b7033e0a1864008aea9d2c129aeb15d74351c50b1261c0e8808
font_01_sfnt_off00012b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B03 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 3c388dfc443873e6506cfaa09779c893a40df0e653d2ca985cbd6bf1990f280f
font_02_sfnt_off00014224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1