Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e18f602707b5b92e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 18:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9a0ee780fa1e7b7e0e59a53fc64f00ee SHA-1: b1ad5811464509c4eb246e3855de03fa8d294936 SHA-256: e18f602707b5b92ea1e89ccf938640268578a37df41e6c41b3a8272914af1d8e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malicious download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///pinezokumivadomuxutor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808ba5716b0---rajizime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096589424737---10795995351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18395a194d87518053886657d76c5a2e/vuguzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/74344453715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/xizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e6ae05ef3---bafulokofotugudulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/54242449382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0077f236e1---bimazutidememu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/26753353366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/65420656235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/xezawodefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/fowexijabopazire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/sepipada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/81787767142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/dapuvuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/97647569077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/52023313213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb208544fa2---85381760663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a2e8340c7---ximasefipavolezonuxodirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6d9rdh8m9n0qke5d5o93sud57/72510647270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=autograph+bengali+full+movie+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba69860c2b38f06f0ee5cf8ad66ec03/5905629274.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_off0000f63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63C 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 67870c5f86c152146f382ba865906703816c50006209b21754dac678b3b4d68b
font_01_sfnt_off00012285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12285 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 5c3ad236341475cab77d31230c06c79606a767df2a82ad03a8dde5c7f2560efa
font_02_sfnt_off00013bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1