Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194d86379ff7e51a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:46:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 661fd7d18bc79f85d56189149dd7f3df SHA-1: 140c02a5770e7e72040137c3a4f74d3c0f96c3c6 SHA-256: 194d86379ff7e51a472af016795f77a36c4cba19f8488968c490b074f6bd74f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is the attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1v1+lol+unblocked+games+66+wtf PDF link annotation
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca65a5a35d---96531895120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/ramufosajilifawopasumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6bd888d72---89087225832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/wozatenopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25055ecff5---86001865917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/3959690932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa21e6c43e3---jidovodozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/3797046503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782779bd7ab34e5419064cd9f3ca3389/pigobipulixagureba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7mv3aj7l3sr6kn13jks5h5n7p/revanewiwumoradod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b311977956d---40472937142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470gtg2eh4a9dn1e6oi94qg0ed/kavatolapobuvuxafesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/22637024215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/wojajefisepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b2b31cb644---dakadozavelilusamane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/porazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87181962ef---13538090991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/renawavijirikodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b6103eac9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/80521128943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d96f38078e1be2e65a20bb8d65f3cad/ziligasenajire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbdi66218r047unbgnn81bejt/bitofomazetagimijaramifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/zidaborinowaratidotemosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/xabubuwamelaganusesenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE388 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9F 11232 bytes
SHA-256: c17b6039de1f5d04a747c777102ff3d0435f5e2b81711d9ba5098214e9b9420d
font_02_sfnt_off000115e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E6 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00012b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B27 18224 bytes
SHA-256: da6294ae0d680927ac0e072153772cfcfe7bdca6de28380ca0e2aadbba6c3704