Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19fe3e6dd119a64b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.1 KB Created: 2021-06-08 23:42:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1da17dcbcc7bd8532b746c79abfbea39 SHA-1: 0407148c76de3a9bce264e529795c9ec206691b3 SHA-256: 19fe3e6dd119a64b8ef4c61954cb9e003ede48f59b50e93aecd815c839d8481a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=molecular+orbital+configuration+of+no2 PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cde4c0c3f---84106436257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a2ea0749663f09425871b3a75d305a/tutagawomezodamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/27109385205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1a5c9d133---gijogowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec08989560179634e48d2ab96aab06a/37687877108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a7d702b8be9000c47b7fa9d747452e9/logujokovuzalabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e18cce5db0cdf0cb93103b2f03332a/difijogazekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ee7f45fb4f430993d2e1151d90d30d/gisalikumanamugatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607924d6d5be3---guwuniburuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c147305f08b2fd33a1ce8960fb56ae9/pafuribovonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0lta0t8163m98ak233qfdpmcl/kibosajijelulitodepugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da55d19666b24ddfd801066a8065eafe/68587286899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b313f216ada---sidobusuvuxidamepewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072765b7d6e8---latatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfa8a9181e---kijiderubaxuraletuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8affda3e36567bcf0cf569ccbe36d961/34927635123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/2388689087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/64487916132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17734 5028 bytes
SHA-256: ff39c979d49929d70c1ca9bfd418d1fb1b0050f388e6b8ea313f44506212a788
font_01_sfnt_off00018866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18866 12420 bytes
SHA-256: 8a74546b478d840e92aed56ea2cca657e3a8e2f1c744c0bde2c37284c9d69027
font_02_sfnt_off0001b336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B336 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953
font_03_sfnt_off0001c7d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C7D0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34