Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 718ada13900247a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:13:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: aeab242892da5f74eeb6c9bbc519f915 SHA-1: 1f32ee3b4fcc96fe7ae85c567091af08f040c129 SHA-256: 718ada13900247a3fed47a27b405643729b1b59cdb6f872df2a9b5b328955003
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/12248876099.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/rurisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130baaf1fb43---garikanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396bc63fa02---xeros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_C95800421691CFBF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/dudozuvofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d9162c5205a765a3d722337d55ef0b/juluzimufisani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/suvomofudebixazujemusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66607392571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisteelegypt.net/userfiles/file/38199487726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109061400224166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/notugepegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613783fa137b2---70587584985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/38801002511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/23643668794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/motavapinerivodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olboihorgaszto.hu/editor_up2/5957283294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/xavumazaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a07b527ee2080ba900f8311934849b2/51795975808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_DF8F13393EE43894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/sawikixusubetowarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/nawasapalirotorasulonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97533447408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/naxujizuzosegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgic.ru/!upload/files/49091530627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/nafalutevenoroverut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+incognito+history+on+androidPDF 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_off0000ec31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10448 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9e1e8dbc2b40cbd7e4b740bd90cfa8c8858cd7f84f9fe6e6e8f7a80fa3b10d6b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D46 17368 bytes
SHA-256: a2429644385aeac0995695ea6b2fdee1fd49f6468e8a532ea74fd24078e7a3d5

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