Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d618886425e42190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7d508cbd73a209971995950b041d0abc SHA-1: aabf92fcd4c93bea2aea657423546590407b307c SHA-256: d618886425e42190f633aac80377556d81a48b038e85fdc25cb1b5568656426a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, utilizing compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting to redirect users. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains or known vulnerable plugin paths, support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

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://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/7499277338.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/padabewisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf48c4469f---zilipewosixexipipudavelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c92e925e2a---57853063353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fde359ccb0---xejopawapalubewivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/rutenuzokorugutafeluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n04frd9b6b85ooaov929019jd4/36420269605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071752b4d81d---subuduzuxozuvusazelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ffd135b683b2a4b347651d6e665f3d3/58861658947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26485369057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/87193463614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/suzajoperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210610130412126128aygmvh0mppjp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353159bdf7---zagesasapefibawofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d57fee378d---38181833290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76432a0225d21636f0974832fa28538b/62886170603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/54051589012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/wemefawutepawamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/kifewomoratofekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c140e12595598fad81f66df3c05e40/2503182897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/busejitululijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/takazodotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/35837451369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgte8r310kqn6hc29g8dp524ib/todanufesotivodibotulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=one+piece+opening+1+dubPDF 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_off000128e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000140f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140F9 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 09fb04242bf0466451ae1d2dda059643f3615ab33c177a4dcf45190432a76e57
font_02_sfnt_off0001584c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584C 20988 bytes
SHA-256: b23b47e6ff06591ca6c5bcf3b7eca8a1ec6d1b725295598c5628215a6ed750fc
font_03_sfnt_off00018ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DED 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 7ecfff38d86b4e4025192aff25471d2f974eac44fa7303232656ddf734ddd0d8