Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e18622986ac3f20e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5769a17584b52f0203a3fe76dbd5b932 SHA-1: e9f7b9969b7eca732ddd422726ae9e4e15e6f32d SHA-256: e18622986ac3f20ea53a30484895a13206e0121752be15b56285049a564703f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to redirect users to download sites, specifically mentioning 'download power amp apk'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+power+amp+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/77286484923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents/files/rasixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/44357290262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/ruxupetobazuzufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39361344466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/52809323211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/44168433279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image/files/dabegutejiroxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/82552982334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongsimkindergarten.com/upload/files/57565151825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabil-doukali.com/userfiles/file/34900829845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c5490dff7fc9846358552b6f6486e2/71854719196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninozale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximangcampha.vn/upload/files/53333240451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtosfera28.ru/userfiles/file/madow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355e8df3c00---gowazamoremam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210911112225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/12359682016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/bokovamovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/72249557745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f40204e261455095fdabc480c291a8d/bikirofafovuvatilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb2e83cf47---22122895525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210901192135.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_off0000ea3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001024d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024D 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 7869f8fe9b101fec2cbfd2a5baa60d60b5d3ba451e013389f944c6fe1bf10145
font_02_sfnt_off00013284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13284 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 5958a8a0d54453c7b37b3473639f55a3880f1de826105802f3546c4674cd176d