Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 918e9415500e7991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:33:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b3d493eb6dff75dee7a709d42210f97e SHA-1: e8fb23095446a128edbce083edf74ae2d6c3237b SHA-256: 918e9415500e7991ee2309a9b7a79e052b07549572dc6435e3212ff877e7904c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs points to a watering hole or phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=workforce+planning+in+hrm+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713307f18c0---35634759564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b97fbeda294d8ebac7970e22841c94/nipijovazanuzuwafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/nijonufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/kufesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/48780993485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/222678063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/74101926022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/jegakoxirolapatafuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161255dca6cadf---kepadosijaligabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nodutakafudirixeramaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c496d65ffe---12358319662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfozyayincilik.com/userfiles/file/75462094559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/76714781949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070154c243d8---62408804956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/92203841780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446e3c13a236656ad7856d1e7665eac3/vomidimuzomomunerilivetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699530672fb3eb11dde2860a318c90fa/46846937515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimura-shihoshoshi.com/userfiles/file/23921459688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/67211540141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9ce917e75---96664186673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/71583270096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/768448853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/5355332083.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_off0000ef80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF80 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 0457b4545a2adda10c670d91ff6c26bc88f2b43acb74378e47444f6219eaec0d
font_01_sfnt_off00011df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001360f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360F 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 032e78705936485c3039d562c45c5d0c99f1a2fb66e804965744297d20a018fa