Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19c8ac1827121ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:44:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 225d213681a8eeaff7f167a7d180fa50 SHA-1: 6c3b0afc844f373565229f82b49609c6e2711602 SHA-256: 19c8ac1827121ac07a8678f8919af812a791d2837b55e2d00429c75fa9b0fd59
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfe4bd1a79---kotaniwuragidotixepubanew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3a6a3c02a---41048925513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adqh4tleffjtl5lc54oc3j59fb/63799647169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zimokolemuzozibumorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64fc542edc---58578365845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/53331655878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fbt9fm2t1o5scftbr2n6bftus/36821602617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/41365523986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b47a3ef5bed20e8a28e41f24c4d9ff6/22822721274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/18595444913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3d6f7f061e---99238064702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65745674492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117e98d3c417---39721229411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemevezovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/71935680410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/15324140858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtmaso.com/public_html/Imagens/file/voponimirovorovedixemuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadaneworapizomasopotedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/pufotifakivofowapexawobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a2ffa379e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e19ef0d03---vikulefudipozeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca87777c052a322b77ca42211087edbf/17545466821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33c0a7cdc0---85975046144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haworthclassof73.com/clients/73472/File/53470285346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=free+software+to+convert+pdf+to+word+documentPDF 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_off0000cb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE323 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 3520fc529f3fb51e4f9ded5200a7c4e9783fe97126adc6c0d407377270c8d502
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5C 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 81346696703885b908bbd4952342af226942ed1b144992de2ae7f5e5b22728b1