Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18fcbec8f37364b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 00:58:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: af9624709569380e4ebf285e870e28a1 SHA-1: cd761d4fa3e15462fed6aaadb659894d88009222 SHA-256: 18fcbec8f37364b7aee3b99203b26e7451b843388cad6d45d81c18e10c68ec88
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic or host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • 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://jumiwimov.ru/award?keyword=business+administration+modules+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415929/normal_60489f51d22c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofutetawavoror.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874623/1342483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weridif.medianewsonline.com/in_the_blood_suzan_lori_parks_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufigewadekuxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406441/pegerobaguwanor_vefevatado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vepodiruwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374194/kapesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xavamukunakupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437969/pejitudagelupiwino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidanarud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969336/pobaberebevizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujigukatujewu.medianewsonline.com/87241338071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisetigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134357320/4630382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedusajinud.mygamesonline.org/books_free_download_in_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zofazozudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739697/afe7c0d593c04c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zesadokalefon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681767/8660265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowibize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348762/6973571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zobojosapez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483592/9862347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464527/normal_6037beede50d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gurawibozogudex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739732/9965076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db01794f-812e-472d-a4db-ac7324c99a21/how_to_repair_a_leaking_hot_tub_jet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4139db3f-de73-4807-bbcf-0984873afda4/loops_and_threads_sock_loom_patterns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14a0c0cb-719c-4bb1-a47d-d8e63858c44c/one_of_us_is_lying_series_book_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ed7946b-61ec-4c61-af36-fc12405df778/21976931112.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC8 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 53d1b4c338c55d3bf22b1cdad4367e8759cb45568b293e2b56ed197e6cc82700
font_01_sfnt_off00010d7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7F 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 9683d13462a10e1186a145c5708381b9655c67550b7a5b36f9423217988faeee