Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19d126d884fae151…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4c359efccaf2f387ba00f2540686356c SHA-1: f739809eb6d9d699db83fb53df564bc12086449b SHA-256: 19d126d884fae151efb50f670a4c5abab803b554eeb0caac134398fdd41850b6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malicious content distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://seattledesis.com/fckeditor/file/xevifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/21134956296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/gadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/32265573686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67979e83e1c0c8dd5a0185a0541db5e/mebawusepiduwujogosifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b9957194b0---lerorivorekatopedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210923050051_565213354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makrostal.pl/user_images/file/4250459970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d504a6746d826f0a2c59f96d5da13ae2/fatojogininewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6683d0b76---16229247526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/38380000203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83562223140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd877bda59---69431229929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916232635847675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/nojudugaginusuxederaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20034522013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/zaludarenitabonefanidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariovianello.eu/userfiles/files/zowaxikeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/loxudewula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/54738082978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webantikvarium.eu/tmp/sebepezilotadanireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/2922993240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78187733488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+iptv+player+for+windowsPDF 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_off0000e8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FE 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 132efa29eee7c82bb60d6f4ea0983325357479762aa2b8ce865d6505572e43be
font_01_sfnt_off0001021d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021D 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 7b55d08b8d1b36d502d2f273d87b8294782aa2f9af01f2362cc825f25578ce74
font_02_sfnt_off00012f06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1