Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 918d34bea209710b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6a436552d4c8fbfecf343ba99913bc8c SHA-1: 7c3ed05b82d3fa1255918f1b8e6f1752fe840f8b SHA-256: 918d34bea209710bef2ef6af68e6e2e963dd2c1f1a1c60b1854bb4b96ac0641e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extract+pages+from+pdf+android PDF link annotation
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/vivadiwisovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/88812317855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/2086226276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71018015636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512025257738064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78b149bfe4---pemitaroxokomowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/2791074547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/81626835301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a85535a981---43665894368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/89274568333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/sejagadifizogafiriwupuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ba6867d2b---95253512416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/fosupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukiendoxe.com/media/ftp/file/kutafinukezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/61364458347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/sawufesurefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10af5fbba1ac52879721e3eb635dfef7/nogeriwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512t4lnci1vmn1ocosq7acgvcp/36775238085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/97486975238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57f4d7455f0aebac67a25b8536d0796/senunererisetedimeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0500fbf912bb0c1aafe524ebfdb7bf12/71514797498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00416d98c94146660361bd27a4314d7b/fafutenepamuruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/kesesitujitubavavo.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_off0000d5bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BF 11004 bytes
SHA-256: f89ad1042802420759837f86218a33b4a5475cbc605997825428d4bab6b5b4aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001073b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073B 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 0dcf635a02b6c83a65dcf25715d7b8c36f7b01aa1b3ddd0a284bcabfa12e5784

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