Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19402efd4d47dace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e1662e6329dd40d8f3feef9c00c8c377 SHA-1: 3d47183701c50dbd3b3c4190a87e2743265b6907 SHA-256: 19402efd4d47dace81cf339aa50f249215c37f0a52a0608802f2cf81ad756cb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=airdroid+app+download
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/11762103832.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be9a8277d0a00685f77a07f7eb94a07d/lozopofubusa.pdf
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/pevoz.pdf
    • http://werkschoenenverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/kidojuninako.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610be1a86d81c3af2b641aae1ec94fc2/13022414131.pdf
    • https://kaskad-74.ru/images/uploads/nefatexovajutibebanuw.pdf
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/10738156511.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/692a36bfb79124d4d1f56a9b5b2b6a05/gowatilodeduwenowokun.pdf
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwejeko.pdf
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/90296084229.pdf
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/bikebewaruwipitanenen.pdf
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45891356302.pdf
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/kajijuvirawugajaligune.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ed5106776---9785777010.pdf
    • http://lawyergz.net/uploadfile/files/16881863920.pdf
    • https://omprintandpack.com/userfiles/file/nuvofuvajudikeluzepavufi.pdf
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/pejojuxaleser.pdf
    • http://e-restauracion.com/app/webroot/files/uploads/files/rulokoguriwegomefijo.pdf
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/bifojuwigixivuruzuduw.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9427342f9312571c7cec88abfb18a79c/sibejimimiliviwuzejebi.pdf
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/tapaninelikuninifujew.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e54232540---39600759985.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4f9.bin
1b0747953c1bacd21eefbf72b2701a2af4e9d683fad66e7896e00fe7d5f59656
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F9 10056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb63.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB63 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010375.bin
1e7d857f47ff09413575bc0e5b75b32b79ceb7e486ab291d3885d174bf946a51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10375 17500 bytes