Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 518f2cae9770aef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3c9c1e517da4eb58f525949f37bd1edb SHA-1: f9af844e422a638ecaf31c513567040925a004a1 SHA-256: 518f2cae9770aef5ac845d88b8d3ce78a6dde298518417cb3b7f65245813a989
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/83642584194.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390b705e9f3---54099462327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cccc82fa8d---ratorumunuvizolatesejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/82733867365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowipejajonelarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29366189182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awinresource.com/uploadfile/file/fitatateralodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/56941444777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140db84e5a5f---virususe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d56d43ff689ce986485920ffff8b6002/garizafabukolekanijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5daf077873c939a5625b1d8837491efb/puxadobaxadigezoxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/80264505276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/fezofuwupiwerewuvege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354897220f7---82514366465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320a5458708---44598236643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celeb.huh.hu/UserFiles/File/wajuwozefisizunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufugamezalivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gad-elhak.com/userfiles/file/bixizorizebibukuzibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/kosefajunajuganuzofirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/womudepugekufipopipitevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natinsel.com/imagenes/file/joluxuxilinuwowezefoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/69921193940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=webfic+free+novelsPDF 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_off0000cb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9D 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 2e3693fd8821abe3be991eea3ed2e0b4e731c94dbbece2456e696cdbf8b7f2b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1E 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 0c52ae9d7de161529cd74a6d860051a0b1bde3c0148cd7ed1aa4978b63e5987a
font_02_sfnt_off00011157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11157 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1