Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18d77cc6d2f62d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.9 KB Created: 2021-08-14 03:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e0a5c786bcb6eb2ceb71b639e25f70e6 SHA-1: 984f5ec1f3f8c2700786f2edad97d7abf9e87ab8 SHA-256: 18d77cc6d2f62d50e70f06269895e0ba674b63a22dce01361c68a35e270ab8ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on various domains further supports this, as they likely serve as download locations for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088506350fac---26179800378.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/popimazuvenut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90ade5fa8---72683821296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab16400dd2c---jesijoraxukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/94205606483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609034874c22c---17478315337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/63279598574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1qtlcrdei7a7ajs6gc1g71d41/lulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents//files/mikobiwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e375a613e6---dorederebibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15103920630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/povum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhisah.com/webroot/img/files/tinifatebuluguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/tidivitimilum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/60707718676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089597590444---minotuzumodazafojejabuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a912daf723adb07a353fbdf371fe485/92299245153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6cc3adb767---88172980917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0fc4213d329ddee64b0b1f609e43b8/lozelizitudumamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d5ecce401---11596351860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/dupolowileduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/63917193408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8o6dkvlgpg8lv7mlv6l6mpse4k/vazedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc4dsr0nl2bc9424150ehektb/64065139296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+play+infamous+second+son+on+pcPDF 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_off00015406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15406 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C1D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 6b6d95d17ab5615ebf22bdc1dfc665c4345dcae549600b4f81b2d73e6dc36c24
font_02_sfnt_off0001850e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1850E 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 2d26f27bfc03fd2fa7a20d71e749beee582bfecd255dc0a07072d98273631a9f