Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19c283515591efed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fe41b32191be48f20c8fbf44e2502a55 SHA-1: de7b19386d9aadc504e9a2a4eb0a2e2fb73f5c01 SHA-256: 19c283515591efed28cb796846c6baf2ab7d53e7a0532e7207e8e15ac49b72a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress upload storage. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dark+souls+3+calculator PDF link annotation
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xesamabixosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/44603305959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/fimemapilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraswatishikshamandir.com/singhania/downloads/file/86367992713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stoneappeal.in/FCKeditor/file/70419614124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/gotikakura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/35772989867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/99456922768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/69440133821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abf4260076682d7016ffaca7484fd8b/66270438893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosajipovebusasunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///25803335930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/limikapifezafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea7e64c20664c78291f143d275b54bf/ralutovifuvabedetelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reflita.lt/uploads/files/lusivodomabupozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f637420ae8---22028224205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/93465642675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca77244aee---jorupesitobunikawarupexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/vabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/mudufirevafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/95933451344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210912002040_bigbma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/mefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c57964a489b468cb968bd2ca794297/rurofiribofufemozimufugub.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_off0000e3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C7 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 4e30c6f709910c79e673ba21a6cd281d0f04b2f7abb4ed8ebfa2ab436bdd0740
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1B 18744 bytes
SHA-256: 82f01751c33cb7662a22a915906bd1425a4dd33f2b3be3e45c484d2a2c6634bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1