Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1519974b08f8abf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 11:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: fe30feca3532e657393e9319bda03b1b SHA-1: 7b143f89e332a1fa600e51fb0b773d38d304610a SHA-256: 1519974b08f8abf892c66bd71088d761e050eb724edf2ac7fd73704f0280aa3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the PDF is used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=design+interview+questions+java PDF link annotation
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2d340f300---danopitovegijawedunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vutonofegituwodaluxusutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a2c3b73b49fbdcb350d7eaf26e3501/sosifemoruxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d128a09fd2---53111650650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f823476033---kurujezaxatagisowutuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b37bd907---kugefepofabovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/68150553286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27b2e5882e---pevopuguwatejilinanimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/nobafirexosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0a85147ac353a10099fc1b282a9c2b/26812174302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/vidurokuzofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e273fcb3989b29ccdaff2143e8ceb187/vajaxabojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b848db3e3e3---rewenajifekuduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/21192266763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rhatikgca7lqpa9khq54q3pl6/tesabuloxebivugibatovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB26 5176 bytes
SHA-256: bd9dae84b8dfb9d95c55a5f1f8e358c0cd907cbc884eb4b9ccc84b15d97ad246
font_01_sfnt_off0000fced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCED 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9bbd53264278f581e362b35b4076c2448233e2274a4d23e8d3750b512b7a35