Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19c0de67b4ce49c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:02:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5ebd219c4329b4374f97a46233a44e23 SHA-1: b381c6ae947d494dadb1b3bd487cd0f579183f53 SHA-256: 19c0de67b4ce49c69652525be13de62ffcf6ad7d3c3d0c91195aee3bc050673b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host indicates a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f72726badb0---putawikugenipuli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080584987f8b---verurozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d4fd5f993495975b5486f2577e7b48/73539750285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/69891828622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210619_041953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f4d7e2ec5---zumabuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/99339116074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/37915609666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844b1d6be85---bixegibowebisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ecaddc5bcdac96a69456c7c92b3bf66/vowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d64d59ca6cba073f48b6a112887db71/wumegosizaxonorevelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/31758348576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943e23d5fbf---bufofemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610637f199bfb---19842326515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/59142000631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8f73af83c---lemasonixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4ari4vhrnlnu6apblh75aojh3/359072485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2a65m7h8rf5rhqm1i0mal49c0/37277633894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/domedafepoluzunenefejude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecab059b991---47866729814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jprv7rpi8pn1pfsjns87efc0g7/wifariranogelodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/19925721941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2847eacee---giwovigawodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/toduxokoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+lines+and+transversals+worksheet+houston+isdPDF 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_off0000d940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD940 10692 bytes
SHA-256: f9e9f52b72a4f82eaa24173503dbb8020071ca2e0a2d4d6e3664e5bfefc53198
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D2 18700 bytes
SHA-256: 5d56085c82aafa7e7c0c644236c723496aafbbb275eec8d7b8fd679233c7794c