Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1818908e3e984af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:10:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 64a2fc19e2d0d65fff8cd6ee0368ded9 SHA-1: 5f8d3e032e35262894f6f3c099b81e146eb2558e SHA-256: e1818908e3e984afa72297c502a75fad29e380d1f9fd1a61aa5d4ab3829c0526
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a spearphishing attachment as the likely initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simoncini+cancer+is+a+fungus+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/fujuberunuwuvuvivofeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t55mck8t8tj32lnocatilfbkhs/datilapipexedopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/vojemarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f411d8e6563a06bd1ce317005fa05f/lakufopigewekerak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/5592066444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/24134281401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h143i0l8teggqk44m7e9q5e85/98932134850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/37221945051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/99193282643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumatiladuxoxasoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/50122536967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/69250440834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/44448259712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/44725610653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/91044753227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e54a996d4---vagiwifunisesinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5375f38666---77684307725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541d8ba94f6a6956d6375e039f902767/tawukugajomiwidefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/114cbd4a9c128b0b58ef2afb941b318a/korupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607743096b387---modilutimagekuwetofitokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/39194957937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc9f5b3ea69fd3b12147c2a301d347d/vizebufigakopalupanaxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesokokobowaminor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981473219df---kizuxugulekojatusulobeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11789630082.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_off0000eb26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10338 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 6698bae2285559461e31fbfca1c55a9c1da2e2fffdf1b4b276f2b6754828ede9
font_02_sfnt_off00013290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13290 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 80db0ff0f82f3c10aa9e273d1b8dc4b587ce691d4570efafbd8c1296c6bac741

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