Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18c0d9a7cbb5b010…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4c3371c34fe2e8e5c00310ee5a8f1ecc SHA-1: 4af4baf64af24f6cb3009981f002f37eb4876a44 SHA-256: 18c0d9a7cbb5b010e19339049e6418bdfc17dd6675f04b5ffb1c7225a68dd093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+super+filler+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://sunsetlearningcenter.com/userfiles/file/zukidasaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arkadas.yuzuktr.com/eskortarama.com/resimler/file/kezowujakuvuwikosudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/renisedujefabotewokona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/bugopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/gaboxidexewonogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/tubeleluvaxarefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56302688799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo-calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiluvere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210904234729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/lupememadowata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/68101315636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/61714189831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3021789663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/1076545571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishkan.net/UserFiles/File/83314836819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesuwupejawuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/bakuxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/gufofatuboxowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021961958483965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panel2conso.com/userfiles/file/58308959360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/31183001453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141aa5e0a50a---4203710489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/seruvexosaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613963466c966---96993253203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42470606375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346a25be2eb59dedbded99a74791757c/buvufubek.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_off0000b579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB579 15736 bytes
SHA-256: f2081b5b7b6db90fbd20c2dd1dbb4e3122c7bfbfa31b6fdc3eae429ef420146e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF593 10816 bytes
SHA-256: f8ca3e097fa3eec042073cb91266be68327208b8cfe9e2c87752f4b33fba1eda