Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 218cd546227617b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b4c432996782fb9f9fb539cb9bd8e0f2 SHA-1: 0f9f9b56f25e5fe66113173c056bf22dc021e301 SHA-256: 218cd546227617b4883db507edcd29147b68e9ce5537714b1d42327296ff42d2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the general nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+power+of+your+subconscious+mind+pdf+book+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5585312277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131160b2072a---juzaxifovopunukujubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/kiwisuxivadixegubafeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/telewuvegagome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/78099432789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/wesefuxumodufuwovagakamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f89f1fc5339cc6478365b0f47457006/566850970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/75364750592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqn3ti9u8pb8aq8bd2pohatou0/somovojejivawoxinula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/62151440930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/rusomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/15005049805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/81471307589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/mesaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23131443008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents/files/29724884157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8a6895601---49839466797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-w.cn/isee/pfm/cms/uploadfile/fck/file/vudapavusolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkp4tu7ur1cjn3mvi9fg8nguc6/ziwokogebovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/32406236481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/91007717367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/jalefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/46646528216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/dajabeguxedevofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/5337787336.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_off0000d4b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B4 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 92cb11fda44dbbd0d0a56ca832f3e6029bda26ca3c3b65d84f007ca65f0a44f2
font_01_sfnt_off0001029c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029C 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 3d31158a0bf8f47dcdb8ed1528d54df2b5502a8da7887102d8ac67b57d1a1276
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1