Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 191dfd28ac909367…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c520dca498df5e5a9196ef28494b7f60 SHA-1: 00784e1dd08c57432dd36e1b8e39c8ab3111abbd SHA-256: 191dfd28ac909367c36242f4510d6c9b3cfd508e76d0b4c186a3438e4d46491b
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 trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a redirection or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/328e5f9ab40a56d1b2fa7992bf98c0a3/45809454468.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/jemos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bc5053b55---97796300123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemizesafozelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwiresezivififidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locke-3c.tw/uploads/files/202109020921286090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/befezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telektrans.hu/editor_up/77812993123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inarsindbari.org/uploads/gopogobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsfinal.com/userfiles/file/41635548911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/jererinopamiwiselepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/74444977564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132709d2a665---56678952226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/jixovotusegovebupamiseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/fajelavepeveguvomosokifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58cbaa716217304c30f417e05c4091a/fowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kietminhrivet.com/upload/files/ludoxotarifawobegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxplus.in/images/contentimages/files/penajelalomobuzavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/mugololubafatijanila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318a3fd40ed---37149623662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021091514332273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f6cdcb16d---rasujajisezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638dc4f6d02edad0dee403ffa3743f69/14226656283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911084513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/47653584144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=thermal+vapour+recompression+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_off0000d5e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E5 16680 bytes
SHA-256: fb4c87e451ec17b7260e9aaee71dbd12c0a8db8380cf300ee8a4cd4b8651aa75
font_01_sfnt_off000100f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F6 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 5d1a7f3571b5d8276069bd6f6a0885db561a373dbf0743d5f17c2cc36f70fa47
font_02_sfnt_off00011a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1