Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18cc04410f6278e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5bd0a04933e288149c13f237154ddbd5 SHA-1: 776d123003bf74b4a6a3b3eb916254200f188ac4 SHA-256: 18cc04410f6278e97b9155725113d243eead01bb842228282b87f01b1f229705
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites likely host phishing content or serve as downloaders for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810428266d0---74945226823.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b225d561fd5---10793284681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhsvi4stmjmmgp392dr6pfopu0/14399829224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d90365b62---70133520718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebfa29f60e---samaturofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aba6714c4bfc41364c645a8a75d7412/lewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oliogalanis.com/file/84957662859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/35901124628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785f0e846b8---kugenekujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af16kr3hl7pghillt0pcbddoah/43807991800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/13413681337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0c2b9be1f---24262815627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c00c0c57a---19558482723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/24347538011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/sofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f0f75168c813164922bcc957b77baf/fixodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/16143127367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875db171db8---fazuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/tafiwowuraxoputodubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59627bc39f0e57b736c37855fc9e381/zabejinufimuvedujidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh58i83gtil0kri5h5lqua0l17/xizedirenele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh9satkh7ioc4uu72obmu5q054/lababakewopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a32c75fd60---85248300821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/35626989595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/fugeteladinewotefadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=back+muscles+trapsPDF 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_off00011b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6F 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 72a8a5e371e671c60965393d513462dbec5c6b18cdca1a5b1cfb386688adc3be
font_01_sfnt_off00014851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14851 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16068 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 08c17a0c7b3a0886a7e03ab5387b92ca1fc8d222fcc012ff6a7eea0880861a37