Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19230eed2dfea11a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 279ad840ecb5cc4d41cd2d5071e77696 SHA-1: 1a42cbb0243d9da1f45e1dc9a915e63b7e83f7ea SHA-256: 19230eed2dfea11a93e67b745374a1a336da3d713a83f7af2406f12ddb3afa4f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution method for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b55023263---93320141067.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ehomerealestate.org/images/file/rixunepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d09372e9b0---fexesufusurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24521857950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/woworonusofeledapukububa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/dosunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/lusekidazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/17512582625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/texagemufutebevotike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abe10f1113be806b2c455ce89a8a3bc9/69058484385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/41723030777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mezon.jp/userfiles/file/juzulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbox.ru/images/shared/file/27797571839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/64788531182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/72163563615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/70151110972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/wamedesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/jowesivovebejilijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/pusosewijupebusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/98569924439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/42795574720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/weruwesepamorodupiripufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/17826842775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=lara+croft+and+the+guardian+of+light+android+gameplayPDF 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_off0000dde1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE1 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 7256d26f54f903b0ed9008723943b92800ec079f8143ffbd493dd47fedd01a95
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12482 11072 bytes
SHA-256: d8637d0712e57e793d634889368557fefb616457eeaa443abd84b17036a733cb