Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 119d86bbe040da94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 04069a0c152a0105debbbafc244537a7 SHA-1: 1fa7d95b63afaad295f063bf3adf264a466c6e29 SHA-256: 119d86bbe040da948b42294a455fc87acb40953398b44b38f8b2d2558f303835
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery attempt, likely leveraging T1059.007 if JavaScript was present but not explicitly carved.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/bosefeze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/27846723485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawesaxusejuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/tejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/60747349224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/36476749115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugililibiporebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80semdingeoce8b5r1ikhpv58d/janabemidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa044kilm5m5hhpjeh30bu5llj/fefegadaxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/bopivuxonukawijuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1eda5c6861---pisoguwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasudaihocsupham.com/Images_upload/files/xozowogukavafugerekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/12259737535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/lesuxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/75261875604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/86481635007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///73245961785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmvsrs8270fu3atnqsm29tlchu/82272707698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/mowowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/79041255397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/65781615141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=esbo%C3%A7o+de+prega%C3%A7%C3%A3o+sobre+salva%C3%A7%C3%A3o+em+pdfPDF 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_off0000de87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE87 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 677b873569eb049a33b8fe4967464e14e279e8d2a2ec43d21c9f6895fad85960
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11003 20748 bytes
SHA-256: d24538f1fbe719b4b976c18c8ff7f9658947d9c4ef134ac84aafe109a24dcf80