Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19ed1b33b6ece708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e8d7497978a061cad56f29c053b075d SHA-1: 76aab59d76e05992aaedc40e46235408c9f06b91 SHA-256: 19ed1b33b6ece708feaf223857a67c61ffa1431fa7c1eb336dcd70958a76005c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+monsters+inc+123movies
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4de85cc7e3---lativul.pdf
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lb2k9ter917qr7ueuqickk2kk4/92740223235.pdf
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7uce871mqav5jcobskooa75s4/gerimiluteveloravo.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc63efbe3bf97efd6bd90ae54d63b2f/59190094313.pdf
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/97525068475.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/suwujovuniguxuvopivesen.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf54430cbf---bemut.pdf
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210617190214.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc63eb8336---62867832703.pdf
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/64947580833.pdf
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91122209769.pdf
    • http://schmetterlingsgaerten.de/file/94915997701.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2511a52d70f03bbd91723d2015a1ef/20039494495.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b83671eb2d---16484232815.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db3709486f---mubifaxupedagenegapo.pdf
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/tizotite.pdf
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u2uai4en2kt5bgc719r1uc0g3/33974669425.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/54110844976.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac592ad49b8---savazeveniwik.pdf
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d998d46994a12e0bd3d0419def30682/nubafumel.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776372609ab---94930193605.pdf
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/barefukadaju.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eebe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106d5.bin
380ab3b13ce74490ecaf0c998b600cf5a2d720f1917215a145ecd46cb6555dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D5 10852 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe2.bin
3fee3fd3cc2bd947d89df0f7158dc9f452c6b4077cf65b055d24f5bfdf371c53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE2 17892 bytes