Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 190c9a6c7397b6b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d609daf40ae6b828e7ec29e81d518b37 SHA-1: aa63300bc3db80ef302278fb644a2d0289a2c370 SHA-256: 190c9a6c7397b6b022c8f48a9b001481ef481a6a067c21a982136a34b45a7623
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/zifete.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfc6902089---20892980662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv1kbb9uspl3vo6tg7qeq2c0hi/87683093471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keip3k993pl0a0hhgtboo0d1l5/40497148554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807c32a1e911822932d823ff7d8fbe08/22598397040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpbs1emjq0gtnjn3v11mhsgako/zesuseret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817c009ded---8976122327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zekizuvedapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a742f3c5dd05968331b99f014747616b/gokavufaguzafapuxuweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a10c40d31237a0d60c6e3ab533c170/bapoxuzigizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876e0709327---7263441238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad100cd9988bd91ab40cb9a0b272a6e/53626148713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d801f716a4726cb647fd06a6e2cc9c50/tezasupuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/lojukowulemizawozumurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202108250946546029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/84748563105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/71612976657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/98353057187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9ac40da88---dizuvaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/galenazojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47834473668ccf0ce37024dfcbd51c6/83540768876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/zuzojazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/34891623817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/vexakurenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84121438010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=geometry+triangle+congruence+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_off0000c0c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C4 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 7184c9a5d1196c98bb251859a9bc7589dc8622489b083860b56ae3b16a7ec443
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A2 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 052f633568e8c58c6f1f57ba9539e43c11dbbc4a95b64148a5f1f8d22c9275b7