Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18fac7bcac4ced17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 05:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aef347cc0c86e7f17072003fe8407901 SHA-1: 6937cee57c1ac26eab771a11be0a27fed9274f20 SHA-256: 18fac7bcac4ced17c3648188f368fa87637dea1dade004800a30480d5cd02983
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, which are likely used to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cognitive+competency+test+manual
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da359a97402---tikizodesor.pdf
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/44537891591.pdf
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9uub2p5fkd4g4c4c2toikc6pcl/kipiso.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b10431a5880c7b93b6e26bcaadcf848/favexuxozenagesi.pdf
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivujekelolixowafila.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259a9bf7476ea530d6a7d8d661d62413/fekafiwuxuxelifugufe.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fadbc31adf0dad1425d0cfed187e14c7/61980546179.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021062021275532.pdf
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/86385315256.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750ca665f05---85325497665.pdf
    • http://74ahs.com/clients/2/2a/2a132ee8da0778863662fd4b1fa251ed/File/79197379443.pdf
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/litijoxevuxalad.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd4d30832---butunepu.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/65662187087.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be4dbe69ea---22539684221.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/30938409409.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88eddtai1rv313tev352t5o1eq/37818926273.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932eb585198---42151428800.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vlj8app6qou7tu4nag2t8hksj/pukigexasi.pdf
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/15182687585.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2238797b8---tovedejo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d3c.bin
fc416603700425a7f70bb7bc36b16f221cbb5dd712e88906093dc5da98ebf5a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3C 18128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013c6a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C6A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015481.bin
306ca663a5c7fe6ffbba6473b8773f7a2931f0315d0a1c5fc1780e1c5187851f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15481 10928 bytes