Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1912a8146a3dddff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e74553241115833af85ddc2589af496b SHA-1: 0b55d469df91527324e414d288c62e3a15cfe1e1 SHA-256: 1912a8146a3dddffe87b7eafc00f6f512cf3b1502ef2d9a4ca1a17fd9a15d59c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b889ac711929acb731bf6373c40d8a09/9135007053.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/49304317511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/85779492593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2jnnomcvhoa73b532vue51j1k/rabupuxeviduwilikanetodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9decfe42407d428f5ddeba31df52365/27409127331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d70e5f62c41---26221623443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/luvavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/voponowejodawepozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/51658223496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0d271b065707b7045bf26b6e15440d/50745156113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinesacredshakti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d3591b8ce254b3d1a3b17bf6981d00/busol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66f5db556aa24f43eaffab63f28a2ff/mesijazepalufumasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/43315373989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7jjb9kadvjvfiejl6241jvbj0/tuxiwizoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/saresizirepokuvukibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/gekifopikakidezegefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packagingandfoodmachinary.com/userfiles/file/fixebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/35036183046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/25894267167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa2e81dc24---gejipugagodajakigedibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normandyclassof79stl.com/clients/e/e1/e16d7b8530e96d8d426d6b963c92b0b5/File/90260783597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3524627610a247333f0e3908208fca/kidodovufiroxukutigafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6947448469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc3e19eitis798tvfrllsevos/52410677292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609734bce0115---datugimosigonupejofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=shovel+knight+manualPDF 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_off00014326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14326 10620 bytes
SHA-256: a2cea1f41712029918f97693339123b7fe2efd03b9a0b26922a1c66b53a3b7ad
font_01_sfnt_off00015b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B4A 19116 bytes
SHA-256: e0a6a0065f295247d54a6750c4487e37983ee4e944f6ad6d3225c2f455fa3312
font_02_sfnt_off00018d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1