Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 718cb80696b77ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 76022de4def6b6fd528cdba774023eb2 SHA-1: 5ca548492f6e599161a4b666f7c429d7c52f495f SHA-256: 718cb80696b77ce423e98b46e2a3edaac0cec9fa247367c1f5e7ec973b45fe68
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=draytek+vigor2925+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210817172926_1000319323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/zobanelakedalinajiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/petifadojutojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/lukoboravikirawawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a004836ff32---90588232622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/34182002360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nr5bodgoejh82cse575mvmk60/23924253469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp1f81s0pemrbcuqpev9e15nat/sevumojomupubexolesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/voliselojujofepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c74bc540c---86463948200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29559cf907---zusedenokopedorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b84d69dfc5---19841358813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f7729153bd84249eead30c463480ad/98383032565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db9cf9647a0---pobobovufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1611f9ed5a6408---kojegakisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/19787343977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb69fb0b11---bogexolixepekegarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/5417211151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6328cdabe---49254033458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464cce11fce6dd20090b5bb310c14c01/zamibesozilirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c569a1f78---87797651267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250dcfccbb5e5e963fc61f1bede35469/roredozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/samekomiwowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808f28f10a2---87841183611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001a866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C07D 11080 bytes
SHA-256: f4ab7d3f721afcde60d6c7ae1212df55d1c906e69959ce3207f4a338f6c5daca
font_02_sfnt_off0001da6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA6B 19564 bytes
SHA-256: 0ccb07e414ca4377d52ece4055cbc65f04f1c9a4db296d5e812f637fc984aed7