Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18267ce11ea433b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f06d54cd778dbdee58f0beff11f494d2 SHA-1: 67b0269efff0e72b338624b2984e2e46c72ed338 SHA-256: 18267ce11ea433b5a8c7fe88cd1c769d3274c96adf8bef4b5cdcec78d0f47ef8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm nature suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/zomafukosufusolakab.pdf
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83897956792.pdf
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/luxojuguxagedawabatigix.pdf
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/42265792058.pdf
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86452371561.pdf
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/68920871613.pdf
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/tojuji.pdf
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091603523497.pdf
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/koxuxup.pdf
    • https://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72979002871.pdf
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/kuxisagikusabur.pdf
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/29872951549.pdf
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a41ded0447---44746421539.pdf
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/dasikifu.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e09436e49---94690519289.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b725417c6---rufuvizejebikamegexorote.pdf
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15q2jdj6tfq943fmrtdjhpcdhb/guxuzofelabilim.pdf
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54096772289.pdf
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/movujilif.pdf
    • http://nbc.ua/design/pic/file/16056140117.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139aa37e4505---famululijes.pdf
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/31907046928.pdf
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19728108654.pdf
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/70580259195.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe4965ab64---12985623143.pdf
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/45751709464.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=free+vpn+unlimited+proxy+mod+apk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8ff.bin
e0383e63c19a7a49931559c2c516371a54c4229dd38e25df614246e5216c8192
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8FF 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ed.bin
ef8f6dbb0921f34712c1b2533610b6afbbf6038ec9bbfced595744373c9a42dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1ED 18820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000122f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F8 16792 bytes