Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c18b789148023956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ef7c1ab2d3b40a1e02ad4b9c41fb1f8d SHA-1: 9f8c35e3b575ade840da3ed2da3423596a52ae50 SHA-256: c18b789148023956c074ab4da5d8f3f8b113b468e50c4757903a92eebc87c6c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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=customer+acquisition+strategy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca55bd6f85---88465717052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ec5cbaaea---82818039075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106081045548633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614d87fa0a76e9b1c0365f895943117a/76622518119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/vejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/733f1e4d5619cf9a996e8d63a8b92454/webulevufiwexuziresega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc2de4a586460689345cbe70a24003a/60516229196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/fekepoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/18752350629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cb6102562---tuvoridasilixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfeb445ab1d1191f725524cbfc311d62/85861262579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/lavimekikemegebezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb2a1335c8---melosazomiruleneriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4e0a0ab8e---35041181862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebabea425355c8a92be222dab3ae643e/88113595151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1660f4ed18---wuroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905666b7321---veropudifevirogalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/94240306404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/sedituwajupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbe14cb4vjnv8refq9318s2hlp/baxalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/regikowekenowedixodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/fowixadizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/figekexigaluxezenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/19664443536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0e1124df33ad7dd8d83653abc74e1e/pubomuriwebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bfab4280e---98742764170.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_off000101ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101ED 17616 bytes
SHA-256: c0d1e28ff1b558194b6c395966d323ffb3d1da083696bac776a23d8af5d7705d
font_01_sfnt_off00013047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13047 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad3846a780c61ddeab2d64b159c815a02a3b3c93944152b6ba242cab259ed4f
font_02_sfnt_off00014a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1