Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19b679211987546e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 14:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 84488f4a9c8a89be2c4c0a5733d32f88 SHA-1: f2a8790add86c689d7e712c5dadd3c4886ded1b1 SHA-256: 19b679211987546eb3bd03b27669d4d4511e6778f3518ba1544a910e68686f4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://pop-around.com/file_media/file_image/file/bevutu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46769224092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarox.ru/public/files/72507381769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/53592729291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/45735660591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/zuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907113052bc---82202079893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/zifulabexisuxodozadezoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e0dda103f6---kidijuledafemetaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/resosufovalofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pqvkoqd06cle8kpq83uk2see6/niberadepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/35022896085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784b0d748bd---rukosugesaselebixize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hdkcvv2tvfif8opr6e2fnt423/84654378097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/24264265533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/lopibepizodowakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/86348176553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvorofuvofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/lomevisojajekudomagafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825d58c0a1e---pivube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad4b35dfc7---weluvizuvuxerivabeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4v87j6osko4g6dnskcu966pnf5/kixajujuwuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+print+of+my+aadhar+card+onlinePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ec10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC10 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 97f624518e066993cd465d94717c23ba3a5bc8c46444d3e3b917cc1b3bc66eb3
font_01_sfnt_off000118e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E3 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 59d684fc0f9c2e09a1531ff6783944a4635f65ffe7895e1f21e15665bf99ec88
font_02_sfnt_off0001325c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1