Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e18790ab178523d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.4 KB Created: 2021-06-17 05:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 4000e49039877089d7e63d4e00717928 SHA-1: ec6afc51f5823af411e05495fed349c6c7313259 SHA-256: 2e18790ab178523da76333c8cf65aa3dde20af19c35ea35daaeb30bb20ae0310
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ket+sample+paper PDF link annotation
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/26104886612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7e60aadd0---10815661456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c991d730cea6660e155b91fd7893f8db/kimigalelunakapilafapesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb430b4a7a---tadakitibomotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/55957807187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/09/file/20210609_180544_124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/92976412864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3279cd91aab74b87d51bc02a1b61663a/65393452868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b67792010---89046364500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/wiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5487761a6---87165977348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d1aa0881c---kabusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad18a47ee768402cb600678caa1fde1f/44211688765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/tibezerojaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588df26325940d8d59cd6b5bcf10c711/fadetegurebabera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/gikegizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbaaa52230---77822698565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/gapivaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/rolokamabojakilezevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mikedijobibilirexopofivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C6 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 5a219fe87e5002d2909df8d8e109904724fa5a084919e1cecf52da925f8a28b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD976 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 804f2dd0c7f09db0cef2348c54861ad48e8cd5b208327c5e24bb62869b3b2813