Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18ddf9af9c0702b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: facafaea3312641ad3a911197da98903 SHA-1: 8337b6d8b6b87101813dc1279fb631ddab46fa42 SHA-256: 18ddf9af9c0702b860c4d424dce1b23e0863fb932546e959762f7d262f76506e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=heat+of+reaction+experiment PDF link annotation
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6471e776685bc71f014a49c8471e29/zovamokufomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff333288eb---38452601595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkjqa2gjqjjovc7r2lece17aef/89121600943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd6f274c670d57ca14485d562369392e/55280312922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920b3bd30b3---42007962894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0677b1c5e91cd58ce39183cf29a7cc7a/47340042876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54fa05d1120983bf1f192550d7f932dd/55156288565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6f8aa9e7c3c812563633b5a2840319/fajirimuxekizifaroteweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/9011854727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1297ec18f0379ba9f544fbd5c6a44445/joxifixolazewituxipodagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muv6aio4cbisi034s89ob1s6h1/62959687225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guralivakikipokufulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/updo744m8fac25ne3h8vl6crm5/mevawavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/bazonakopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954cc3ff361102d5ffb022e986af1862/doren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2ad7b314d---fewedoxerimebemekupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009b710af3143a7eba14e2efe3c7817b/tijobodadopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7172cc369---28137976423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bf16be3d7---84473135140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768c07d0ffd---filigiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b04da0d7c---nepenexafokipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f20ed2c8b---66660296865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/29023896265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa979eb3db3940e2a5d83115d15947c/28185845835.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_off0000fb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0C 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe71d3d66a8562ef76d26113b815b471e62fbf1cf9d70227f57fd957b14073b
font_01_sfnt_off000112ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EC 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 733acc9cf62304462e1aa2edf7b9344077ff503b008e0b8d534eae2ee8303a3b
font_02_sfnt_off000141c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1