Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 818e9ceec8f0aed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-28 11:04:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 24b0bc8a2fa4ed6cf56e9ecdbe2474a9 SHA-1: b5f3cfe15e6d41088d76e1998ab7fc22ff482390 SHA-256: 818e9ceec8f0aed741acd0277968381d4ea7090a9a9cd625b7264d0b080bdb1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, likely intended to obscure the final destination or host malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac60f2ecff3---82660009287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a1ceba117---81335687526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b9f732b8d---liwikeguzexopukutubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608140fb6643d---tiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b6cceace240577959d85d4a65f1ef70/xesugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b47f24a00d32eb794adf5f97539a05f/nejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/35772538166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2qeh2oq0omqpvi10h6bo9daf8/36688251890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubepoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d27880a65---78473988637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868b5d3fde6---nikelejazodudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccae1d72452fd27f4c5890985301625/pixirexubawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9bcae0167585d5314fe126b80b7ee9/80322450780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d46e0b4d003a630ba216b0af0e553cef/21456120502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/66851174725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/zitoxilapapufuzevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d956c1d7de4---kipedufofotiketuxaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/21814082439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/70267884725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb8c9787ad617d0ca7edf8972fe7242/soxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/nikubipikuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/44046612182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b18648050c---zegadinarujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=thesis+on+solid+waste+management+in+ghana+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_off0000c392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC392 16548 bytes
SHA-256: f9652907b8ca22ae4b1fff2517aeb9f67da79f183093906c7f3f4c0bded6bbd2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7F 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 478e3753730d2cb4f8c0542275206dab782e8553d774ee7a20e2cf2a08f20cf9
font_02_sfnt_off00010765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10765 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1