Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7818577ebd3b458c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 46e22f5808d72298d57b2f0802c6db55 SHA-1: 83acae0e97cab8567ce3869d9d89e94a8ea5833f SHA-256: 7818577ebd3b458c331778df39c11dd74574e964f507e9d0c3356b54a1974423
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+molarity+and+molality+of+15+solution+of+h2so4 PDF link annotation
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2c2a759f54784a55c52617cae7de0c/20402266623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/73616131131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcacst9t911cl7i1h2ac6t5386/43615400559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/gibajivasumivipoxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adqn29roqnfk2fb5cp7a7vo3q5/88219580486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/majiwagokifiwujolutasefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842cf7f7a997f5dc2d0f21faa4bd6fcc/51929685043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/bajevawasejugetijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxaradetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/jijelagosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/vakokulejimuxubowixesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d5d8ef0fa---12915382437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/29156030457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701cd38b13b---63411939597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/dizukesixolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd85f5b65f7db6128b6569a4b3bf916d/vukurolotefasoreta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj6c7u8qunajbhbupta2s6c0f0/jabimunekalitogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/xuzetiveridixutokinejije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/61459420455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/42194097460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26acaa83ae3a7d5e6ebae6fbf1535250/18444970284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb84dc6225---mapewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/kenekozalevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99813178d8---93993894308.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD16 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 3349bff791f9c3901d11508a8dc35254b19d5a15d6b54c89bdbe3f5cf6e432c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA13 11060 bytes
SHA-256: e87f4bbd2c7e22efb03225adb9114c2f4aebc2895cdb31eec3a1bb61919e49ff
font_02_sfnt_off000103b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B8 1728 bytes
SHA-256: 2ee675cf11163fe2196ea725d56d6bad2cf7e1d17ac0d7b23872e21517069439
font_03_sfnt_off00010c06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1