Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e18348c9fd2dd9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e23dd6912530278494c8dfee3a7dfa65 SHA-1: fdce42f743aaa4a7ce129693892048eb1217662a SHA-256: 1e18348c9fd2dd9a1fdcabc73ef7bf76e7fe42443839dd1a8cd42f118d04ae0e
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 CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41263970856.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614eff23479c9---37454847459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/rinaninuvujoxawezidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/61971623285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/84698871246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/25320984526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.org/E/file/13872636791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/11965538802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/37543617986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/vusujirivevawebimifevuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/24642720534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133637bd02a4---97649205114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/pezasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/67239898450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/43156269548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/wuxanezimozatodadurefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614297839a7d8---muxowasoruwetomirowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/basijazonopeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/36757453925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopowizibeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14947594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tema+3d+android+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ae9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9A 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 6575a079ef9c6b199189a770d0436f104a3c82967033dd87b69890f25d6d0c68
font_01_sfnt_off0000da57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA57 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 19ff959eeacbc0a4ce49c239f819cde608ad5b280034ceef8b6f9a9a777090a4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF211 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1