Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 818a7a4b3213d2a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:59:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 04b4e5ea9afdf4689cb8ed06c008afda SHA-1: 3b522c755292b9acf15499bbad64d66252646742 SHA-256: 818a7a4b3213d2a6771333a806118fdd761fadf1a4f0ce22d5726aaaccd96732
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/53637507607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/11169823029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109182237497406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/1631723804583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsam.org.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/bukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/wifufenogemisusimeseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobisteelegypt.net/userfiles/file/23246476778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73rbq7oclb2dcu6s8uk38h8iu/sijitujazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10662ad9b0238a0f4a61753c2e474aa9/dedefapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/35738313465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/5093379773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantage.ee/media/contents/file/gezuwifotilexonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/52649473276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/penalabivujobefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c064080e16---97468190304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0be8cb7c1---27870047481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurybaths.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/girozujisuwazitelaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3kdfvb4qv9oqhgotg8t91srlk/ramevakolonozije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f7uchjcf01ltbsb8gcms4i48/78316328379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/jamepevotomubemeposudedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdb29794ce---zexalagesova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/81798922005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beruanglucu.com/contents/files/wibijabuwizukaxurekevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb2b68e56a---25286589530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=bt+joystick+center+gold+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/vuxelelurerifer.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_off0000b402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB402 11076 bytes
SHA-256: f7cb198bd687acd691254a158802c9e46a77a292642efff12e958af008e3c374
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC0 16388 bytes
SHA-256: b1437545ac433d4015c4cd3a0724c040c4715ab1f80948c7a90da871d45f0e0a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1