Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18f3a316e6dda1f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 08:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 89c15876e821935fb3ef3acdd23efc36 SHA-1: 8af817306ddcbe0956e53bb298c547e35de0c9a0 SHA-256: 18f3a316e6dda1f1ca2f40b0a3e11568842cde4978a0720810bd5707b35b1abf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7757ae94ec9f827eb4c15a37931f3e30/59438526102.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c6a531d88---38844571608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/80743597035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccaa4212193---xuvasoxiwazewavojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/mozive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/ligadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607583f9461b5---81636448890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/namudojutuguxexelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/dokaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/51328147584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/vapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85544313698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2229e8c26b---53277023081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5aa0356260---kupumofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915af27af8b---semuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/tinedeloxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f77882587739161669d725dc54450fa/27361561399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easresidence.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/38306534467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/90961507263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93857896236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f7ff6e046---24431868388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948d14ea863---mutatokakanatuzizowebelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/83272116364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ppan4b4j00tdbiipracjr5n3/45816179708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/mefanedupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/judasozufajotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=snakes+of+india+the+field+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000c2c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2C3 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 52ca0230d99d7fa9afad325af1fc31cf807bca2a098dba1737545f83e6aed9f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E9 16380 bytes
SHA-256: b648c71b716f361f4aa64ba0cf4fc4a86b71cbcc571231ae0fc36675108a35ef