Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a18ee8dca0a12e3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 05:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ac39d2a2dd2ac791b34935fac4d06467 SHA-1: 28993029e4b881c0d053b9815917737933ba32df SHA-256: a18ee8dca0a12e3d2f155c13840f90163e0896b2a45f9df0f6a168f27e67568f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+development+jobs+for+freshers PDF link annotation
    • https://kiptep.ru/file/mazakavolinepubemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natovitikawujedomuriwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/fabenujixawunivufababedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wic-net.com/userfiles/file/lemekozujepusolipixokadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/16499052074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46859403433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b10d9a91ef---53824286639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84894198120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robfredo.com/userfiles/file/wefolovugexugafowurobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/rapiraxutaguvasujifupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xoxexajadepanivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/suzidivetonevilerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://321eastern-thailand.com/userfiles/files/vamobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210901195515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/getasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/19170235461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/wisikemufiporipuguwoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6bc9771304bff98113a9f8707247873/kumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0dc963a36---76882797058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/19821615730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aci-immobilier-douai.fr/userfiles/files/54571350564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/12926573956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10067245245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27971eec445bd38d90106c1cfab930f/68185394645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/gelugezutidijomidabesav.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_off0000ffae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAE 18688 bytes
SHA-256: e5b76650ebd4a59c95ad008caeba06aa02fe0a34858ee057ac267a05a892d579
font_01_sfnt_off00013035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13035 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 5520ecc9a4c8a4f74e548e964b19dceb4cff34614960fa94ba105b62f83f218c
font_02_sfnt_off00014902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1