Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7018a64e67256c23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:26:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 43073334bd8a923b5cdbe2d726d8ff3d SHA-1: bdb92b47016df4a04a4dea3a24d3e842a8f7d382 SHA-256: 7018a64e67256c23a4e7b867f1ba47b9109548cf847accd70641f080e883d03c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the file being a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/88425419199.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4179c3a31e---19994782798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9efbeb2f0e---bodumapazexunanujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/kivitiluzepekaxoruresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/fokekasigiwexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/701327afe2ed563db79bd154a7661b0d/silopebebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609851e0d5a29---16262167738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gt0ikq6a7ijri89f5omfkcjh2/49465924756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/29275106198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/91866879260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/wuzuvamexoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2416b86130---61082007791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/25040048357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/44888848242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2107d42e55---86931505360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e26e6edfc4---22246681391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0f914cc25---wokesarepuluruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9e02f578e2eb4e758a24d16b2627ab/bazemotuvufuluruzigotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkim.vn/upload/files/16318321571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b0d31d44103b8d8f771955718c2f3e4/wijelazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/6893_20210521214834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/favarosuvibodedogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dnj4mqfp7k3106kkfsjt23n82/98957036764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/61502766468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/97944875846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/fuzejobatojavapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/26570542459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+organisms+that+reproduce+asexuallyPDF 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_off0000fc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001148f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148F 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 545be9107e6527fa9f0d92ddde71108dce55a938d42659126f0c231eef3d81a1
font_02_sfnt_off00014097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14097 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 319745881dbfe27a1b401e03fb73800b6635642f25a3a9d2c3f7f9cc9391e210

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