Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18ae767c3addcc94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:54:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 473e42439cf25685a1e265f49197e735 SHA-1: f59820e6ff64bea4cf46be941fc5d6aeefa73ec0 SHA-256: 18ae767c3addcc94b16ea52121fd351d373cb57540c9ac01e384460c81d34626
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to domains often associated with phishing or malware distribution, and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests a deliberate attempt to create a deceptive link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wallpaper+gta+5+android PDF link annotation
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/95971760732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/71346193365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malinaionescu.ro/userfiles/file/79315333474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia.com/contents/files/tofuxebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/buvetinazunozebiruvemefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/nogarexiximari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44723041864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/zikimezukizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/16503332368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirigigitofomasuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/83695902036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/60016744063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f731e1e8e1---zivilifupazibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/51013120862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/razovurozesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/18074806847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/nelosimalefovejigizisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/92435426677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etqpa5e5clam757cgjjgteqbj2/puvurananukurujusala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kijebupenabaluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/xasozonogipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/95106948326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/kekaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/jabaxasizelaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastelbuilders.com/userfiles/file/48115594209.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_off0000d4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C6 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 1c12f3edb79c2ca0270854d1d59b5449a4bb11d124bd1a4d2de7a96039ec02ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA8 21788 bytes
SHA-256: 5065b73d6faacb08983da36871223ab1d0253e30e5bc14999394d80c64b1d10e
font_02_sfnt_off0001262e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1