Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f118ac06ec2f1d59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:24:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e1108bdba94d6bfa33ae2766151ece37 SHA-1: a33ba11d7aea31cd4f10b90640ec2405aa57a6e2 SHA-256: f118ac06ec2f1d59683ff4ac9d4d3bd2e2a0401e2ee4cc8dd9eaf27746035739
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external sites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-distributing sites through a link farm. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detections supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/75093765901.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/23/file/tajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/fuwanovimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/35463371981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/9523906902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf03028575---40834102535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/74300551065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/7589936354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c5f38443d5c8b6d2d3fe9884362966/tusikeneruxivoposal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17164961009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a592278aeae---tenejese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708ec64f8c8---govagigakodubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91b3877089---96465858574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/24370864046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vanmfp60uii18nnv3jh1bbs5c/61363347874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/51116105270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/53819804206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/2671898751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282c0c05f17dfee4fff7da8a19bd2403/kegepavatafizafeleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl6o5cseetlanapsdrhpc2pi23/51610051986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e682fa8e94f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089936529e5f---vimusefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/27534717814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wozajesogamigokobejaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=unit+1+equations+and+inequalities+answersPDF 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_off0000e196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE196 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2de09bf385a2b4c248fa4caad67908cc8e0bd5b7f9f5dae66aabfafaa90361
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11202 19800 bytes
SHA-256: e7e4ef9b4f98bac339692b699918c8c91ff0de6c54d6165bc00fec6358788d7f