Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19bd71fb1183ece7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 19:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 98e803b0d18b2ce1b3dbea00d22c33ab SHA-1: f56a305262cd1fa0383660cdb95891d12225c21c SHA-256: 19bd71fb1183ece7ec49d328d3e6dfb8439f0653c89d00d476ed75e38e36e804
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of obfuscated document body text and the nature of the URLs indicate a deliberate attempt to redirect users to harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=serial+bangla+star+jalsha PDF link annotation
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng7leajimvqfrop4jenhvth318/wuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841d4918730---85736353992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/67000563393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek8u8tlsasdufqko18dd6i3u6i/zibijulozoladuranumopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098358c5ca1d---74159325046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/68542068996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6858842cf---36099702258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/puvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8e98f0a91---54386920943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/55140739502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8tq78oj9ejh8ua08fglj7q9q/59678774061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7565e483a4ce8f158318e7d9520e77e1/pupujifopasuzisagufuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607755eaa6dcf---bowugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1434206edb---79836530213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcb8e68160---gemabosiwipujewezeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88918606022ec7472c4b997754a9477/69553625059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/raxizebuvexesumixivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn 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_off0000e0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F6 5268 bytes
SHA-256: b15a201581dbe6f10a5a0861dcb9c372c04a1ac724fd81a64025ef47005db039
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D2 7696 bytes
SHA-256: d8038d00aa8fe7770d0fdffee317e18312b2224f6b65ee557cb0d45dfb777b08
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD1 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 303d2092654860f73cc5f23c7d5515282b11a292159e4fb21fedbaac454bb9cd
font_03_sfnt_off000130a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A4 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 16841cd06245dfab0499788473f9c5e49459ecbf5940b4b59b8708d0fa28d68c