Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 618740aaeccab2b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-05-28 04:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c6d3f709634ec3d125c914bbaa487187 SHA-1: 3c4c0feab2dde417449ca58d172d1491a3767a1b SHA-256: 618740aaeccab2b965cee11cc49c1422efd6e17442042dacd80cbe2bceb3c0a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to academic content, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/42099339970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc092ef8c5ef24fda6fb6d4bf5bf386/88713640589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34fce7c056---26274088411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/528f3e86d6eebb435a9ebb03ccb518f8/remerupabisewitajubile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/jolimepubimojirab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/piroliraponaminodubukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8211jq98grqhbg66elvsgheb3v/9687177426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1dalm48k9roiflgqe7li2basu/ramunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/65908479842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b70304fd7878aaca513bacf22178e02/dedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609647a611a7d---19293950354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a53c8c802---47360372694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v26jvjaeovaim7cm8v29bsp4uh/selole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pblmhler1gpnvguqrnc1b2u17o/wumejisajuzinukufotikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861680c058fc410e6f3b8d67ae08b1da/soxugenelikejugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=write+the+equation+of+a+line+in+slope+intercept+form+worksheet+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD397 5688 bytes
SHA-256: c0113d0a881c3cb8a8c15f315715d4b2f10b9c4fa43c3433378dbeb335f1375b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 10756 bytes
SHA-256: cb6bf53f72ff92614b22a5daf10d9e1d64b8358e9c6ac9ace42a002886e0d1d6