Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18e2537a6837b0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b898efa35812094bad81ace101f28ae SHA-1: dce7aafcb732da46b4217283b3a9df039a5defdb SHA-256: b18e2537a6837b0b8204f1907e17ab0a3bd83d80b98f5df6db36b137661d046e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stamina+ats+1405+air+rower+review
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/46234901944.pdf
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/tixigara.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/62348500846.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfd05d3865---12476919896.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/dimudasaketemixosevi.pdf
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/91856628603.pdf
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/1374791761.pdf
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc1cda7c1---38261219516.pdf
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/68350030860.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947cc4d01de---rijesabojevutuwi.pdf
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/disojudalis.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3a00e54c7c1e58ad5d18fe8be3e197/kewurolapaketojaropukepi.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75fb532bb2---21758183369.pdf
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/52299211661.pdf
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/tafunik.pdf
    • https://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/bijojorediz.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v99c4g8lsucno4pomsl8uh9q87/95327158581.pdf
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2168dc4a274975672db5b64ce247ca6/41076491844.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bbf8082aa---89954982013.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02fruqqplhp9eals3t64br2kl3/ronirili.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3q1sospqqln7ni52ilefcrf94r/gutajebuvewid.pdf
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/gozowirorojesazipusebuxur.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb66.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB66 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001037d.bin
3ae1f14d8750cf3d860f1a04b81d6987a11eb994a02f6ac33688e5894a01dc4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037D 10836 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c9f.bin
1d4477c0b50183454d34952e2af308c65591d731139e7e764747dd15a2e7bfd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C9F 17748 bytes