Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f18611b8045a7de5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f08f1f3efff224197f365dd86dfe830a SHA-1: db8bc5df3fb2cd8940d4668c8a5a5caabaac154e SHA-256: f18611b8045a7de5b0ada32987e59771e5703ad64ac3872a9d708dadf42cda66
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of multiple external URIs indicate a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://meritumptt.pl/dokumenty/file/pudozosage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/83906692958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantellodetersiviprofessionali.it/uploads/file/tulewano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/15426516053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compagniaviaggi.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/22463977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/40908717587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141187938147---bobunifakovolawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/84683799793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/tisulufemadupevisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/budivonopixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointwebhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/33029692766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/74444977564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/30722434603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/8035346655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/tebogitabefidujigudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/rarafasebodexovabogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmthl4t09n3n36m3sun2b32mqf/buzajovojibunulamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/vopivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68403641730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87b2f9c59ff154c905e11b68ed12d1d/98582018469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kratky.eu/files/file/24252122487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganamumifawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/56823960042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/62265282632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=nomor+panggilan+darurat+androidPDF 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_off0000f657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E69 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 2b3825573b7916d3e889f2fcf1e464f67928f227840bd077d7bf75543f517653
font_02_sfnt_off00013b76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B76 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 88c84f7f3ae0129b3f26319af2ca46857421044fd3caf4a6ebb812ab17149371