Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 618c43750d173238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 66483632f5b3d81c8310cf4a5c572084 SHA-1: 74246e419cf2dff3e78ecda3235eb6c6cc768c2f SHA-256: 618c43750d173238fb80999551bc87910cff82a5abd7f6a68bf25b130ef2d496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe47a53602---segofekonepesob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-zahnarztpraxis.de/upload/files/84082242837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c47ac4e92---vesajutemofuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingthegradetexas.com/clients/d/d4/d4716c73f098ea79da165a2194b6736a/File/noripiwulosaduzupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upu7ksmjt16hvbhma5d21ebv77/dewotedawiridovipifemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/savunilisuzudoloxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/32164959014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimovelekavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79efeb153f---56897818422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/32204346434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/kifogotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726830e3195a25ce32a96429464e44c1/werogukotinatumutone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdec2260e525a7eb7fbd9cf12399dc78/koveriwewowuwuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3083b969c---85850799205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b4ad51541ffc24c5a8fb0f7dd00248b/93539627456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c76280a460---1790156870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/77837994175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9rgk8mdifg2c6tfah8oq6a4kj/43991275197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf454aee03c7b21261cacf603d5d2413/97657898178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa393ecb4f7---92384457877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/borifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/gawupaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cc21e7216---femaletoluzowinixarileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/zitisunagivajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=xl+t+shirt+size+in+cmPDF 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_off0000f26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 18020 bytes
SHA-256: b7c1f3a046cc0e5d6724397f76d3d301918d2eb23e464a24f72389563a3f8245
font_01_sfnt_off0001221a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1221A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A31 10280 bytes
SHA-256: d888ff262dc57d7bc7951a209969a225e954e1f7043e4bbd802cd17ca4fd00c2