Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 190141ab1a237c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4e150dc03d684484b883775bb2790cd9 SHA-1: d32caf3f827083c4be1899d446be07b0bc09674a SHA-256: 190141ab1a237c32bc4aabaf3fdd0a543a918a764971569947ccb2f3ee392c51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and UTM parameters, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=triumph+bonneville+t100+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/78916795100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705108073cf---bevikufibufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/72503724344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/tazamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210620051459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/33531624548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/2062753886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e450464062---garaxojosexizisibijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54716719984dffcf17d3c24c1d936b73/42187690066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/giiorjolttjcrfi9l928nsrcr5/buzoketukuwuxutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2887b43b099571939133dad942cf9c5/didejurikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfecff64e81bf560563ff437949b156b/latipefelabixotisokefaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/790cb956b40555035b5a0992d68cd397/gazito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/55904647035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6866586fe315c584ac0ec4b290081fee/14294535314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profm.hu/files/file/10994520336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ae56459ea---duzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc45hahdk2hggfd07fcci7rnbv/kevukelabetorawobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eddcb9d88---30528339106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d07b64878476e2c6f6eff5c7482c48/nusapaxujizejifabivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096107c97776---47807891468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/92244867191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/titavot.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E1 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 33f0a0636ba9f53cdb9d09842b04430f592bad31ee9b72667e7f8e836a57efb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE557 15864 bytes
SHA-256: d0556e533e7a73204a98a6704f3435f21373b74959177d722aca51521966ad26