Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a336b007217940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.2 KB Created: 2022-06-12 23:18:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wisamar (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2022-07-15
MD5: 8af73f274127a61ca3b2d54c182818b0 SHA-1: 4755968506ee8c1c724ca272234d32963f5d0fad SHA-256: 18a336b007217940cf6a141bb52a5f71bc28d699f6f13af1728bbf3e08ef784c
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many of which are associated with cracked software lures. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large farm of external PDF links, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results and distribute malicious content. The presence of multiple URLs pointing to cracked software further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and linked content strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0229

Heuristics 4

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • PDF link farm advertises cracked/pirated software medium PDF_CRACKED_SOFTWARE_LURE
    PDF contains many clickable links whose targets use cracked-software, keygen, serial-key, or warez vocabulary. These are SEO-spam lure documents that rank for software-piracy searches and route users to fake 'crack' download pages distributing potentially-unwanted programs, adware, or droppers. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://evacdir.com/habitually/acing.U3lzVG9vbHMgTWFpbCBNaWdyYXRpb24gV2l6YXJkIDUuMiBDcmFjayBMaWNlbnNlIEtleSAoU29mdHdhcmUpU3l/realizethat/archetype/blinked/demystify/ZG93bmxvYWR8OGhjY2pJNFlYeDhNVFkxTkRrNE9URTJNbng4TWpVNE4zeDhLRTBwSUVobGNtOXJkU0JiUm1GemRDQkhSVTVk/poujot
    • https://hidden-peak-63836.herokuapp.com/gawaulan.pdf
    • https://suchanaonline.com/ahmet-tekcan-ileri-analiz-pdf-12-free/
    • https://anticonuovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NVidia_GeForce_64bit_Desktop_Display_Driver_31422_2013_64_Bi.pdf
    • https://www.etoilespassion.com/advert/red-giant-vfx-suite-1-0-2-crack-macos-macosx-link/
    • https://doyousue.com/free-download-microprocessor-8086-pdf-book-extra-quality/
    • https://solaceforwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Contos_Animados_Tufos_Baixar_4shared.pdf
    • https://melaniegraceglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Telecharger_Gratuitement_Le_Feuilleton_Kitani_Mohabbat_Hai_Saison_1_INSTALL.pdf
    • https://volospress.gr/advert/cd-key-euro-truck-simulator-2-keygen-torrent/
    • http://barleysante.com/?p=10129
    • https://vumview.com/upload/files/2022/06/wTpp96rFpLJyVytnbDyT_12_e36a0e778afdc7c1ff49cee85462d823_file.pdf
    • http://lt.shtolfit.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/r_kelly_trapped_in_the_closet_3340.pdf
    • https://kharrazibazar.com/huawei-hg532s-firmware-update-14/
    • https://csermooc78next.blog/2022/06/13/helldorado-crack-no-dvd-added-by-request-free/
    • https://community.tccwpg.com/upload/files/2022/06/g1EmcqQBYvYyx7te3dtZ_12_0b83ec6b2f9a8406423fe76762511790_file.pdf
    • http://sharedsuccessglobal.com/marketplace/upload/files/2022/06/NV7qVYrbG8oQ2BsdHQ1b_12_e655005f79f1a3cd8d8a547058839f97_file.pdf
    • http://al-resalh.com/?p=15047
    • https://music-box.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/jalmor.pdf
    • http://persemediagroup.com/coolie-full-movie-download-in-3gp/
    • http://naasfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/Windows_10_Enterprise_LTSC_2019_X64_MULTi24_DEC_2018_Gen2_Crackl_BETTER.pdf
    • https://arcane-mountain-62412.herokuapp.com/holodes.pdf
    • http://www.tcpdf.org
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00000e7f.bin
a217f12862e0ff75203bdd4136ca0d68471050be46bb09aed5306898926ffdd4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE7F 120140 bytes