Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1419d92fed65e08b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 07:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51537f2b8b7bc8cd7fe2e1d1c8c23d77 SHA-1: 56b79400109bbea5809cd53f0c74873415b41e08 SHA-256: 1419d92fed65e08bb0f8aac657d15a464104b6dfbfba504eac15c665c18f3a98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious sites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://mm-podium.ro/userfiles/file/gepulibowefiwuje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/60c389284860e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e42fb8f69---89706869114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/polimofetigugugojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/gerikubapuxopiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4c3dd3fd3---pawibitezulozowobusevetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/dodome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aea3a7f447---72883037290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/51488127332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac6abb17ec98352d14f97545e9fdec35/wetadubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00b9da925230802719b9acec59f9c79a/74949191981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a1f51bfab---xomunosemurizumebejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b091061ed06---73729103744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dokilarupoguwepanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/582628657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a965b62741---bekuxubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c392329cc---76387728334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/womiwegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/84614714302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889f1f47952---73907203883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/rosifusobefodenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6095ea075e2d69d65623e7191c684df/92665357977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci9ls89c77s5damnjm43goig06/fapavuvaxegesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/gizujowelunarikelowima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110070e11ec6---50679346477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82b245bf5c---52804575762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/niworivepebedapopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=logical+reasoning+direction+tricksPDF 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_off0000fd49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD49 10596 bytes
SHA-256: aa29aa7ccf6907f7382622a150409779e4a424ddae487bcf6d74c5b2b2351389
font_01_sfnt_off00011569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7B 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 9bfcdb7eb600ce10adec206d78549dbd73c0abde22ed98b2b99d275aa4462cd4