Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18869444b184ede8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e5566022e09ccae9acf159e2df9de047 SHA-1: 8c4b92beb1a21a4936663fcbb635e09ab8d2d730 SHA-256: 18869444b184ede8cc8a3163bcf40ad697a9dd544f57f26f29ed22da79f3523c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+productivity+apps PDF link annotation
    • http://dobermanncz.eu/files/69467804417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/logezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/55965120464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86957614325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/41358935841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416b8dc57d8---wamodorimugivupafozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/20881918789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/58724800928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/vapagixidobofuxukesuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/judiroxoneseruzunijajege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitranglani.com/upload/files/tabifarawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/83006727795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210913060118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99898212488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae72eb08c7---nijasesexakepefurenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/83078693403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/luruwumenebujofasezudive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/lozebatuwodiraguvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4798b075c52078cd9f8976672d61cf66/88301448304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/sipovepexeduxazorosuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/40379623319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/vovologukanometegumopowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/79524099578.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_off0000f37a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B91 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 21f516194ee3fbea4cc552c9be490ee7c3b3e393976bddccfcf6753356fefebf
font_02_sfnt_off000124a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A5 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 11fd0eb5cdce0230b4a8f786e13a8fc08b30543be492a6cfccbe8fb8c3928935

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