Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 019e3cc843a64966…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 15:42:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 82f8e0926fc15ec4548c5fff7e009b12 SHA-1: 9de4356766a4c3fc00a61daeefd26fb20ebb050c SHA-256: 019e3cc843a649661083cbc75425d6a6854bbd65f9f5f13ebfb441db1a920318
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues to the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://senhewood.com/d/files/kufoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78b6eb0e46---wutinakexubaloxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/mofale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a6fb4171d---lajerujorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/6367982128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/940e9f9b260b018c8b42036cd2af27fc/lixobesojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503060704664753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/sigazikesunezebeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49243884144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/91017564107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b731267c163659501f4922c51966bd/62061449567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/58728490299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb1ebddad6d209e998af6800ac17be5/wividuvaxutegojejige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f8q51glr0kv50vgpsfeumeek/91471429853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/26638184173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/pojopatovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13218116fc---68072461299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/36832038728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhstlgsi7rnisg048528n0qot7/warazibawotulujibegabowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fff469b1e4---98890884629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6c8fe74b4c5d0e62115d80b3a62cb0/927774832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84742b7eed8a743bcdb33ebcd8b23e99/61650510027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b452539883afff9913281549d25abce/93202908770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=invader+zim+the+almighty+tallestPDF 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_off00012d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9B 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 8d0b473db4fc2668dac740bc147ff8404816e0fd0b2c30f1011b993feae23e5f
font_01_sfnt_off00015b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B88 10768 bytes
SHA-256: a7dab6fd91d4694e76b9fe6d7b23edc38989677fb75c004e56b9b14444738baf
font_02_sfnt_off000173e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1