Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e18122e6461a954c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:57:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7a2a6443d2f8415cd6bdceb229333b11 SHA-1: c2db845fe4790b76485cd013fccc08e856809b50 SHA-256: e18122e6461a954cbd1f3cd7a130907490e7c004f2599b1c5047ee827640bc0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, a common tactic for initial access via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cacae114b8---jazaxefetakusolomumejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/lametaxejugepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c4545c2ce---35854702588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88a112fe3c---ligaditoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/rujagexotukuxeriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca039107ba---64758387878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/89756463902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/34614919688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/noxozotinamodilopipuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc371c6e81---xapajelaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/4466852962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e5853c252dde4322b5a006e66fa9df/dagetebafuduwowuzase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/diguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/josakuvanamawadive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/99198665247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/89843214285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/6338432661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh1gkipbq4mt8gvt5n55mg2d0l/zozuliwujapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b335f1209---satukozorofebopadaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b79f0842a523b9b5512187382fcc936d/80531012700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+tiniest+bird+in+the+worldPDF 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_off000175ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DDC 16912 bytes
SHA-256: e637e00ccf62e55936411c17359f58a72f902e23504f18d8e840dfa18224dbf5
font_02_sfnt_off0001b9fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B9FB 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 7e5c05e4be9f0c2b20eadfe468be85ad6671a52ef67b1ecb3888c39359675713