Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18129d7fc1adad7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:37:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1070ef568d25df5f8867d82807bdd66f SHA-1: 3da26108b62a6b80bdde086af193cfa1dd13114b SHA-256: b18129d7fc1adad7aea2471db6b34d8e764d114110bc5eb0b48f59343a6d2082
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/9011236456.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/71507032523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83427901df---vufifazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608466c5a069e---xoreteredejabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/jibunugisawiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609130f1e0384---58771104284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/gupuzinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608511aae3329---10604870708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/mifanigevojiselaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085675420982---fifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce6895acd1---tutaserakilomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/42301962609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/45740636713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///21337159419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202105300048260561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7875a3f71b61b109e631c4d1ac0c0164/72982469455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16095e223ce8e3---bozelusivomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f4c3b3a8edb9ef0be02c366a510856/wogixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc6c02f661---mikesixisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4cbfebee67af34f439c0eb8ee23b9e4/8697422713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=daban+8812+astray+red+frame+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF033 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 68316aea8b3bf9dd799c6b2a6e0a597197f608041c60802d15fb6d8443f5f633
font_02_sfnt_off00010a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A14 25104 bytes
SHA-256: cdf3a8b754cacfe8ead816df64006a8708436d4c20fffca4bc06e57df420ee48
font_03_sfnt_off0001501a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1501A 27884 bytes
SHA-256: 5fb25f62bb32d60ec43d521922216bd24b9ce2b6095d9aa8249c9142957f14fc