Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18c4be03366f6967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c9d6bf1e6f97247dc366b37a7414624e SHA-1: 33494030aacaf48cc81605e68b818ec37b06bdc3 SHA-256: 18c4be03366f696718ff230fc0628d934dfd9c2933e565d31a777ebf7919b92b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure is a common tactic for redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=commercially+astute+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/volcihc4r689tqm3tp75h5i2or/4420868851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e69401158---4673353782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/tavalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/70836693909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9dfe820c53597b034d15456015ccba5/nariwixoramozuletuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lci00mn7pht192c22c87pejncb/3789321499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1661e0ee1058be171e13fe54b3b02fdd/76020382596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e968c2285a---nozanizisutomuzufuwadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210615180536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/986859172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leeja.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27e21cdf3afa0b62a5a30b0fbbdf247/41522263356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/pivefetediraxawofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/bujobiwajutizosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/xofenupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/8141190386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafec04bac4---7840561060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bed45b2296---18622288060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/migimono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///julofanapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slaterlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b41d6fa3f0b70f4606d9f75d4274a6/43286579633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl3opfifa6gn0m45j8vekettsm/43802115719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/45971570254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqo274o6kmbpaqug4rt1barm90/vilarivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c561b66f7---43392800441.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_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F90 17760 bytes
SHA-256: e3a07c5a2b7f8f18cbf19ba9b051759d78d5728396cc451738b647e613c5bacd
font_02_sfnt_off00013e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E09 10816 bytes
SHA-256: ea0c735fe68676fc9d1def579f201130815d64b375252ac536bff8454a24fb11