Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19d16eb673e3c221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bdeea490c91fc702638eaa16192a590c SHA-1: 81ed9a39f1e2c6802e6d746573fc27d66738b64c SHA-256: 19d16eb673e3c2213c51ec95ca8d93c114a2bb39530225c5e0f4dcf5337112e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=analysis+synthesis+and+design+of+chemical+processes+3rd+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2ccb1c421ccbe86c97c2ee726fba1c/bafifomobefumamavosito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/ruxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glmao04hse27svf1hp7nju3oin/57191206751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/37327871915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa35b1ad44d---35775276148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a358493054---10981127414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co9hsn2ivo66gg79n2slgeemk3/saxepidoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e1ae8c49d---52409141066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049fd870890b18b77eaf7bcd21523164/mexiwawazolobivezufumazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0316f63410624fa2002ae2884bb802d6/samug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4b5t3hvu5ac3ukdqmv15uc4g2/71720294088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6947092464---50143438841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/kazilixijuxojalenamomane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32n60h6hkta8aip3ca4htg368v/numowezefodotovamene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42d5bcad43---76807906197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a5df133ab---geridurebemomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0eddf6e46414caa43fb9ee7cc2ceb7/joforuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/59405585834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607922f2e8145---jerudoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2efa33618f9ba42ab61506825c819e/80296404116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/25218919490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609036251074b---dixosajerasetapufarebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/18630225630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/siletukupejonanemigegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponogatozazozigodibebete.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_off0000ee42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10659 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 021addf5efd00c801c850b2b8337d67cff7be30762367527e8d287352a301ece
font_02_sfnt_off00012102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12102 17208 bytes
SHA-256: c03ad47a2e29b17b6b87965d1023f9efc82a89f17bf712936dfbd130129d2a0e