Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19f56ba7ba8a5b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:50:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2cb308ea8c5d4d5367c00c4f02851931 SHA-1: e3a213598fba06168691e948afa866a35e1de051 SHA-256: 19f56ba7ba8a5b5157b8a2e4d9ce065e1c526ea33d1384d1854c6cb679c9bf2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundraising+letter+sample+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/tutukizojizewonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0429cad10fd9e74b30019bac4daf355e/tuwilononivarenasonubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0138e6eee1f8d9371b291efeda84461b/26851226808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d4a1ab0a7---95062049567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/35846628042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa4f319f1870afe7f2899cae54ab10c/direxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572e544953f643507101763b50d50553/13960007514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/bojutebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7ed585e70c87f47d40926fa7f6d180/49344776540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsdirect4u.com/uploadedfiles/file/39825631770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93019829957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/jijametegexorutavemekole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/zuxunivisofupaneline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29j1lslrm9m364a6esmtrpk5an/fusaluxiwodomadadive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/gonulevuzomavoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c594edaffa---pobosafafodemoxitisuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajefejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399922a183f7b07a8e119129d2e25655/sifusupatoneliwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/xetelezipagowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djn1e5cemtedp03trs0vk4c4h7/xujonakomabimezeruxejoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed3698cc8f---xeligizalaberedivigawetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/71906173016.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_off0000d2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC0 10796 bytes
SHA-256: c0a00c1b89568026b65cc9edc0a5671fd0cb58753edebe5725bb54c50dc06d06
font_02_sfnt_off00010356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10356 18040 bytes
SHA-256: f04c513beea8f95097d1b0ed10f7644a6e786f109274be16fb6ce02e77b11231