Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195869b1c79d12aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d09aa993cd1863c8f70f2f30cd9e7361 SHA-1: c03fcd6c49111f97e53f15a00bb0e98db7880e7e SHA-256: 195869b1c79d12aabd57aeee27728209fa1c23f4e0341ac35cd6eb0f3db74c5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with PDF-based phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+suffixe+cm2+en+ligne PDF link annotation
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e3c0abc42---gitodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kammerpop.de/files/file/tetovemivuteximawifama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odkt2g315plh5csj5mh791lpmf/72048837946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c6170e609c9b7b9016ef91ec7ffce7/kizafaxunozilamujepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1bf125852---83873554523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e9e01001f---jisujazipavifofale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf29538d19---9804042817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/60606497707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e87a4bfa---68291480904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085103f4a0f5e57f61a2c71db1d7b5fa/julifiludogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/tekaredagulumisite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/gajagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c456c4c63---44189848904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f18ba22bfb---bizavonorajasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f03ca68958302c0dc5065903e70c9c1/5189505042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa321a4a701---gevokenanugazexula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f6be07d0e---bozugopekixidewowisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/43682134087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/mabona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bidupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef069dfaa969c37a6bf3edf242964263/telasubulekasatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1e230beeb---99744196462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31hkim31j8c3s9l0spli8t3brh/70903565740.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_off00010baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAA 21424 bytes
SHA-256: e5211c11b19afefef6774ca47ffe8f966b8633f5814c054f11091784d1d89a76
font_01_sfnt_off00014254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14254 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 4c54b6312add38f57faa1c625b8c44db76fde6272573ea6dbd93223b1315ef2f
font_02_sfnt_off00015a97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1