Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18d7881c80dc55a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2eb2ee019bf5112682161285b1233b05 SHA-1: 1c81b7bd297e76b02b4b2d624483d33d62a92e05 SHA-256: 18d7881c80dc55a52553014927df81845108fa50cae28b04811d55892a8e246e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=polyglot+bible+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/sebozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/nawusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d6a60e6eb---10977834324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/98582526345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/xabaxetebuzodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/85633408225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/39309697833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/novawulesipiwupogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb535bebacbe414bc40dd44d1ab01b1/82236989671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/93523109087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/todeporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c78596af72a655e3855ef51cb59e603/derejofegobozasanoranoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f88192bc1---guxikumovometuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/41402201624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a13d42a2e62882c87cc99dcf3d5e720/46990754373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbfa67cda0---11227532715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3db4e8149---61394100821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/38145800985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/lafomigabepazitulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d323ad5575---lokowujisakopategapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c31985ecce26c984caa2f123ad53fbc5/tipudinupobutiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/zugamowamofufapopawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd1902e2b0e87ac29feb747c7d8e18b/jijatu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001626f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1626F 23316 bytes
SHA-256: 460cab56a4f82a39d3f03a6b6dfd5971c6855f9a44b0e681e862a5d34c45701c
font_01_sfnt_off00019f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B75C 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 01cd0e4798e93fb086042d610f43ddeed7bf091af48aa863f5c4a4f61b651684
font_03_sfnt_off0001cd36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CD36 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 6769af173d19c12ba406b28bf3a38cb4c07f81999170de906b71dcf611450a49