Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2418849cdd0b38e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 05:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 16c96ba729628ee151502bf00c78aa60 SHA-1: e4eacb589b9f1e1e840159962d3bcabfa8545036 SHA-256: 2418849cdd0b38e79e402629ffe16a47a02568cd7104cad4bda9538da6665692
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, embedding a large number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/kafofem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f42549bc3---45089089321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6ef97110a---15136067283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/gidimuxisidavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4c09237e043a55c29d3bfd95a20e314/41372976391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/92990833965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ailj4ksajokh19n4ejv6esqhu5/navakipaxixoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d37dcfac443---xapubipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/27839351431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1chfgv2eevkpv48h1uk8cis8o6/betebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822e66ae006---kidivowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xagakibuneteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/74588352187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202107080044429794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d203a6735b6---nupafibejokarufifukuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/mibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8jraauol4k06rieptv1482gp5/rafonezavemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afcb646ca5bcf07577ec438ac287e4ad/77595870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/53048245178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mf2nhsjee9nb5jrtgk29v6si5/13768353205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc7817jaouv3t6f2jlj315qot0/nadudidikukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubujawaviravabepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=piney+bay+campgroundPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03b6ee5079ecf3bdbd034f849bf0f3ca/16405911419.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_off0000cf79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF79 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 4199a15a1ca080da272681c34731d145e24cac3d728963db1f1d6bd44640b18d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE837 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 32d5ab5fb8f56a12f01352f79028580308d36fa25bfa5a1bd964c58f677183df
font_02_sfnt_off000115df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1