Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18fa416dff495dc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-18 07:57:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 98c924fe0f6b8241f418f0785adb86fc SHA-1: 45b429f4d216c356e9b03ab7fd205d6152766550 SHA-256: 18fa416dff495dc44398bdacf41f06b1c1e4f3d304e31f6a4b17e6afda02d496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a seemingly innocuous document to redirect them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/8461956510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/86804478175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/vokilizabafufaxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc8260b8ff9a6c76cfd624604c151f4/gidakesutakaduwitamaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igenbdtnns19ajrmo87g50q8ep/botix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a23bb9d5d5---8888537788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ready4use.ru/uploads/files/gipibivubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/52655013949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6539f81628ced71c893ed8e0d9a158ed/zizixamirawegenovimejusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/13210791230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45456201587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1966.com/clients/1/10/1054c114374c88b4a165e91103565d41/File/xulaxuvipuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16cddad1a6---kupamoxofiwotaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/medemumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/40047299414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85daf47506df198bca1609825d253ae2/66357371095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6204608553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/11699086167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210623_153432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af27a46d0f7---tumeparutilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fff432220---49755283021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc6b4ee924c47f7dcf0cb495e811bbc/97895637736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/nuxuvixakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608470d9e26f9---femeduded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+hindi+meaning+of+angle+bisectorPDF 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_off0000f403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF403 11056 bytes
SHA-256: ebf0b264d85b978039eaf9c20f5c2a6b525c0443bf8a5787935b86c7a6b9b4d6
font_01_sfnt_off00010d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12569 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 398c0b409a8eeda58adae2476a1c520bfed7343ff925ef074b96268ee8db6812