Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d18cd120b95c9ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:53:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e28ab4e077cb412f9c8fb62575ec7535 SHA-1: 59fe73cce9dc57c1e65e8ba77a83230f9355faea SHA-256: d18cd120b95c9ee542f6eac996be4e39d6b2de820ca8f693de5bad8f8e389e12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one URL further suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=breaking+bad+subtitles+for+spanish+parts PDF link annotation
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbml5igba1in680io5kvvae0j6/jexotera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/74215778868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8dea215f55631b7a66548e646bcfdd9/66768447724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/lidumakokerurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba444f41f447b002c89e8dbbff30c4a/93560318899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/66597922041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454a6de5a6---miwixekutaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/mamabekadorixabaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6bb573c56cb71c5c9584a5aa2950383/zunegofarelopojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79e199510e---gevijatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979e6a14043---zutimeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983b01b744f---98788498977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/14966740638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83d7ebda7---lukunijisapetiwawowoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11ec6348d---buwusenifekegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a303923f654---83507966587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b709167920a91c20ff0df165823ba9d/bidipibuzibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa40348eae7---88884765970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/rejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefejase.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_off0000eb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001035a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035A 19796 bytes
SHA-256: bc2f8038ab639b8ef4a4d267d1d7be6552296360ae99c2de2ef0f01369a8551b
font_02_sfnt_off000135db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DB 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 82f5fef361f8de190e4bf91e1f7a256945e1aed2723f6aeffec4424c9830ca5b