Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 718879840bd9bfb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:54:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2748fd34b1fefe2e181dede2cb5f042f SHA-1: e910f54bd02f14482d5369dd3dbdd93581b77c4f SHA-256: 718879840bd9bfb18a61791c6a7a8a15e3b6a87d6638d8ccab9a39c178657293
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links are likely used for SEO poisoning or to host phishing content, aiming to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103afdb2571b---dizovadi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/21807975385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/76704070919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/gajapitemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d8d648ffee121df0edeaa122f1764d4/rilejewaperun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/pemase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/82873748665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/79885030644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm2mh1qt8rp7c39omr53l17et2/77331506773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/feguwurudolaseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stqrv0l328tave0vbubcro96df/7829713793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/90669364379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/74887097010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/23287986834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/purisemedane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/vogamudorafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patriarca-batiment.com/ressource/site-image/files/jopofesonuxegagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/rovukerigikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d3dc16a4f2ea9b90f69f862ecc3f90/zomunogubojenaloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/83212665695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotusesiwibozisujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/11440316416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/wegananafatera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conberraquera.com/aym_image/files/jejikeferuneluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/83026890292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ae33106f9---zanobanaxaneroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ohm%27s+law+multiple+choice+questions+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://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_off0000de8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8C 18256 bytes
SHA-256: 183bb1a33ec67874f5fe156b63dcd74cc5779d4471ed96b210bedd62ff75771b
font_01_sfnt_off00010dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCD 11176 bytes
SHA-256: a62f967a205b8edf50be35f5d49b3e10f75359f835a8476a429e344f8e824d7f
font_02_sfnt_off000127b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1