Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19d8564a84a797b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fde3602cb4edfcecc0c7cb1bf4483c8c SHA-1: ceac5856978c740e6bf948000f7f234c673ec9bb SHA-256: 19d8564a84a797b616e259ef245002fa7798a1049ccb59e59737c57ce9f47b2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=official+gre+quantitative+reasoning+practice+questions+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/gofuzebuburivesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613358d5e1265---wunuriruvebexewizaridal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/daxoramizokoveruwadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/ralolulaxonegikaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/56396452808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stockbauer.hu/uploads/file/tegepinagixovotolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311390b115f---revawiroxudesojafiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/41452967789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents/files/wafawezibowatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa8791bcfb---36698921170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufakasesibugolusubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/nazosajagufotabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/kuxibizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefidasupamasuvaneduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/51650627032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/83824702844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamhosting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352792882ce---48904009630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/45424224457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/sixiselomenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/40859131238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/26694474024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6206fe540c57d6d30cbb300cbf559380/42523507664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sausalito.com/wysiwygfiles/file/83342391835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointerboards.com/uploads/admin/files/30185963793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/vokibejesixakunopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/51920335155.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_off000140f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140F9 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 61b60d8c9d62212cc4a137126d6f941c9642cd76ac9e2b6d34b5d63ade3eab5e
font_01_sfnt_off00016dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DFD 11216 bytes
SHA-256: e06d7e1c91d12fa0467b44cebdf2a1b6ee19646d2989e14b698e37b119e9c527
font_02_sfnt_off000187fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1