Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 818f8856e7e3e054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-08-05 03:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 36c43b36c27b5ef830edf18906daf344 SHA-1: 36c77b32361a17fdb23ffb213e75f7b534bfaa5c SHA-256: 818f8856e7e3e054fa2e996c68bbe0bc6ba1a927aa167e51b626d5fb8cd95804
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a tactic to leverage SEO and compromised infrastructure for malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/ribagazogejewaxexoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75040127679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210804/2108040843471639830aieu1e3oo9u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvmf4d28hv48al8sgisft6ll83/gazasumeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47df66fd65---livanegafizodibevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/75210701198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cea7474d4---31620752189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/57533473677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/13404138070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210710045506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6c4e3f5f3---ruwodumejojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/29012943068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/jezazojomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/61991387109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.khaosanpools.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16681580750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6975f39c2---55801573551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69c8ba8b01---21626675147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e66acb81f---liwegepokinalewovokowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cffc5uu07e79cb76uqofmta0f6/32289287978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746f57dc4e4---ganovixiduvabogivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/10384325847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/tilitukisijopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/66201364705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/78760787162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+fractionation+workPDF 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_off000121dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DD 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 519e78fca5729546940c50c5f4c6c6cfe3a7892a86237d8de295eba019ac10a7
font_01_sfnt_off00014f23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F23 10592 bytes
SHA-256: c570fcd6f814df68dbbcd9c7e55a66983da05d7ae647ea9bd94fd50187bc5e0b
font_02_sfnt_off0001677b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1677B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1