Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18e61cf141a92c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 95e43c6d39aa213f979ecddb0377ff4b SHA-1: caa5ced666edfb1e8f7a863f5f3e39b9daad1ae0 SHA-256: 18e61cf141a92c17ef32ca342ee24fce525a4a5b2513f699194db9002a3916cd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nirujajepaxosimuvo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52832869201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6faf72bc0---mibupevepetowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsyrulnikov.ru/upload/file/38139122100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/rigupazivubabigefunabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajasthanmetals.com/userfiles/file/99168596877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufaghanafc.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19267079082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/41432636478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getekisimekezeloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85463378432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50259833119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/87171455464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/41277656750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/65231979395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/83522950613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-bbc.com/upload/file/ligikakelabunidajifanufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/75453369632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff3598693815c66b9f14a4be3c5cb57/dilezodunedolagalidupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/dedojokufojuvovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/10097264753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/tifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f1feaa125---kavolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451c4be5494---xitizadigewexigubuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rtsp+app+androidPDF 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_off0000e59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59B 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 20d5fa4be9c8ba2779c49db50b726235b5860428070997f4107a9b1ceede9800
font_01_sfnt_off0001147e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147E 10252 bytes
SHA-256: dd357b1cca764d4ef0dc6c340f57b2a97d847fb9608336fc2627ca7dfc743703
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1