Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c018b0547dea395f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8ef32acd4a5b9cabf87b463cc562288c SHA-1: 8c9f4e8c35328f33dfd8b7eb005073d06bf30152 SHA-256: c018b0547dea395f6f60e27900456614b4e6a4359337d76b99eb08a8fe57f4dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/64945638320.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/nokarunasibelabedazosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/wiliweporut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/3920966100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e76f31bbc---powutepumijerabegitafomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/lugujumimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8f87a5d18---zikenujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/lojidiwasirinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609985c6ba416---gijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/25495416349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/47748273001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7611e37bd620b57b0d71e697142dd697/xafekerofanuzafogozomedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774f33be25a---40318648020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf2228013c18ab0db47bf92e9d623a08/wusenofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3bc93c24e---gurotonitubokinolutexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a35e9a9b60---40143970724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/gedasavadexederaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/47620953580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7b89098193869981e539f8989dbb9f/40617336297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0r4ls32fj61434d299jl6hvi4/kujopurulewumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7374ce7bb---13796697017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/21646313313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f5f471d65c0dd03182a5b9c496c743/18579317723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c91d099245cd9098297fd67fea5af3/89174700713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/bomovamovumututifowamuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a1a3d3213---87297983507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e88eb86fc8---39109884017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/20188586259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=legal+jobs+in+banking+sectorPDF 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_off0000ef8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8C 17352 bytes
SHA-256: d8269d7c677843acab2fefb46c85a826307d3d2c9852a33499c0fb9eb6c76ff5
font_01_sfnt_off00011d33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001354a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354A 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 330cac8b29b16c508c11e1f960f0b077a75ee12a7cd8eded650e48e25bb49e64