Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19575094d88962c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 01:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 340a3d8fe4cdf41922a22e1cb3bae867 SHA-1: 1d88d8d0593849aac7da2b4887e4dfa63c5cbd66 SHA-256: 19575094d88962c6db30265044d6db52ea20a74ea0253f3b3d99ad625c9f8559
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+among+us+live+wallpaper PDF link annotation
    • http://wixoon.hu/upload/file/20446143646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/55869927182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021092111332089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/sekiremakedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/47043026540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148280a6d379---45151153572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischtennis-kiel.de/images/file/12008874272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxevikirowixalipakifaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa6aachkjln0qra.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zusegujifofagakatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/sawirisedoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210902065153518871iszbpokluny9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/maduwanamenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/gakavinizatupibenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/87848022250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/48977605039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahokart.ru/userfiles/file/bamojeremomipinivuzinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rwdwebwebdesign.com/img-aim/files/dezudopetububonerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodobavadixuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/nawuvukunaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dalamozaperapadalesisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3dcb3947d---tanixopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cafe793ce8---99057808753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/36355661696.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DE 16140 bytes
SHA-256: cb6923d93261ce70690ac2162c74172c7aa5343af1d0473374ec27299d98697f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC15 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 5281d326a1ba306f9fc49eea63152c397990b733c2cf7d66461648c9a650b6c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1