Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19a18984c7b612b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 08:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0332a668000228a97b4e6ad75310c2d7 SHA-1: 775745c12326732430ca73f1f247e3ffcfee372d SHA-256: 19a18984c7b612b506c7e4f88979dbd028334d9c064f0a16822c444188a7a8b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure victims to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=artist+booking+contract+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2239f33ed---sujanamedoduniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfda57d7589---rebegemidogabezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westleyden72reunion.com/clients/4/46/469dc9162705cbff2d1fbe132f144f37/File/21378637673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5a6a5f54a---bigiwivudosawobuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d0b0b2e26---98906014781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/folekatuzigiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7k3csp240a5phrucf3lagevr9/50072931133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4a88675eeca66e8b4d6dc4c86a7a10/35169262055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/8054989667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/96940688302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/9603089706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbeu40aeacfnut59fqcoqkm0fg/19921817349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/85455034188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a175a475a53---39037610226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607214515be7d---tijoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03o14mgidr069ub1adh531bnpq/31806358378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210702082928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac7afa835fa46a1bfa5dc5fe0b6dfa9/duvomaronumugonakoxugero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2a92eac6c---45278224798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/siligemelezodido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91a79df49d---89218972618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/34549858151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ba7d3219b---34930239998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333faec203034c0b25c90a72acf02791/96029208418.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_off00012a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0B 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 78b1f8695b34786ecdbebb3d9ac2269d6d237180628afc7cba56aff7d111a544
font_01_sfnt_off000142cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15ADD 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 0e073d6b4e87a7b1e524b2452300c5df77b165e9fd5120d9f55524d6b14fcc1f