Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f918cd564c484827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:30:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 39885901bedc6b5b85ecafbbb8b62552 SHA-1: 1d69011f866a47d1a4ea08ef853c9062c25827ca SHA-256: f918cd564c4848277cc3d4e1b428557b79955fa36ab0827f79197559824a87f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to what appear to be compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9n1h0hkr97a72traim4sblkc4v/mogugolini.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfff003b00---37451731742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c236fd1bd5d---91570240555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7hvap10dn6k7nltrhr1q02rfe/kazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/wizezegubepoxuzuzofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/37093267761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/45631754380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/28000021553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/16372061913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/bezivinakugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95f5479698---jamuwabananoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/25314041401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fdff2b59e---gosikumekomugaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7417a69f7f---jesogamularo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/99808791102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/xobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/90325224029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/4563318622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202108160232394207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9507ced0848dd9e885c9cbbdb01b65fa/zijixojepejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/26673983677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094360c40c64---36897262208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3f996a085dc13099e5b184713faa5e/xonudoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/radagiruzudeboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ford+fiesta+2019+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B7 17124 bytes
SHA-256: c01421a376c52368d58e0c1d009301bf80c18bb858c65ee15b7a413dd80e1f4b
font_01_sfnt_off0001053d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053D 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc1b8e56d6238db3860b20a10685f835335b30266519d85158a9104155f2852
font_02_sfnt_off00011f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1