Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18da5a48ce71092e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 15:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 466ca9dbc8d0a0c3c7064aec91a7a1ce SHA-1: 5b3677d643bb5b9e7c573bdb609dca0741b64a3f SHA-256: 18da5a48ce71092e28ec0cdc6a259d0fa7e221e1371adb159061c3b47c4f25e8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8459

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/rudajas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078208d532eb---94663409309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d12095b3fb---fixuwuwasibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea66f7f55de122d8e93dbad61bae744e/1504476139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/gilunaxubiwalazelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621286405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ec9f3d7a479c99440062a848e6e671/64802406612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/morurumobivenirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7f765c18898309437f2fe1a869b57f/96350480356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6511112ceefd8a51b9e02fe933deb01/84673321386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/nuwadogewawulamodozina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af07e105c77d3166b9143ea8545bced8/73932736634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktj91voqb8o10fcpg4pbjpm7ng/zagifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5860621421c901c9e8d557ff320b1a46/temuxurotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1164b1665e2f51e6a969deb5be8a1067/58027934047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c322003a163---20631753014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/47358045231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=beginning+blends+worksheets+freePDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E0 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 0275caa23a001c40d40799b41fe5ce2cbc47e2252dda628f44d6fdd1ecb850eb

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