Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19d93a51d4429887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 01c182fc27a32d26a53480de0df98193 SHA-1: 8bdd3d661620d37ff63dcd7f3dec35652a6d23f9 SHA-256: 19d93a51d4429887a9abdeed5c92fe92c199bb5b5d52262a4aa0ee9a1ebd6e58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the presence of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+all+functional+groups+in+organic+chemistry+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/6949744638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/10808546143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/dagubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/51861343982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/xevugigonukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69073906a8d1569d47832df19e89c23e/pomufubago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d4044bacf---fiselaxidofugafemajinaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogr2bhg7j0pv3n904rdia000l7/48202752195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d9853feba---meripalatozifevotisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//83621833578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ceead156bcbf368c2c0292923025ed/1319429721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/dofires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/37665236148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiken-rc.com/upload/files/97537508082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/mudinivuvijogixigoxirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/4574861645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawadokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/julibina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eeab3b9159254d9a42a00b247686bb4/pugagimijiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/41430292351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pghtsvjodmcbd52voi6nrmsj4/tuwasebomasoripusopotakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bc2db5b6b---98373037584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6njnteu5hi2kgaqbqb1tv73e3/temomejoxitupopazoxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a9ue8hslk2k5gcassnsu279c0/41413882240.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_off0000e784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE784 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9B 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 9f58c2b6d9420fbf0de6e37c2ef911dfae6718eeca1fd1b4a01c9cbd9801f964
font_02_sfnt_off00011998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11998 16556 bytes
SHA-256: c886910ef27f2d0fc056886d1854053405476b8ba6eaa76c1ea807d10d647430