Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19d67e00aa5671cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 14:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 87ca237da71b1d99e4f1fe0d588e6e0c SHA-1: 43a83d56639719793b84c207c28a6d1baf149ec5 SHA-256: 19d67e00aa5671cbcd6b7f66910089ed6cf7f06a234906db6c4c266f4fb333ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links on disposable or compromised hosting strongly supports a malicious purpose.

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://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f004a8ebd5---gukikotitinij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a263b2cf6b5d282bbb67c6f178047236/98261537413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e1eb972e5---96502702679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/33211767757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/fowabisegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itv5f35dc8v4equmksiannlns8/pobotazasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/73131429970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/popezesomixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e212a15e094---ziteburakofenugamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/jotovemawemagenomijiboved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/rawuzitatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwartetproforma.com/userfiles/file/gamofokotenetefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/konosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/69204340528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfef234512---nofopatejanikisemomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089305b96699---redada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37d1656061---90125258515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/nunukedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d937333a4---79906249461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/37983054989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/957514405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1cce3ed2a10ff80dbfb11db6f378992/11309696394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f78b2b8539---55609475856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/sobejixepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=companies+that+received+bailout+moneyPDF 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_off0000fe30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE30 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 8d12f9066034b6b0ddb20573d4ac2990b1d395afb1035257e98407ba3a170bf7
font_01_sfnt_off0001181e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181E 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 911e1b5799c2027de639088ef2b68b0e774e2d50855907a9d319cf762b69ea6b
font_02_sfnt_off000144fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1