Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b19efb41864caa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: eec8dfa75571bfbf108b8212134a6d97 SHA-1: 87f3cc874a6925d0e9fef3d3f75c7247f11b63cd SHA-256: 1b19efb41864caa33270f68fbdc32f2430712e15dc5d2b9fae2913a1a2f715c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is used as a lure to direct users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coco+movie+online+watch+free PDF link annotation
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/6138f90751f84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134704dcf371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/kigojimiwoganasubigavixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb1802cddc---23025625011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/jarogiwekigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/44183627028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/sazuribitobisefawabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d2ef6097f---24258543090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/ruferibopomiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/26015955896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/kututebisexedukowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeystraw.com/uploadfiles/file/48158867283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/fitituwusipadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ky-auto.com/uploadfile/files/xojawedoripomuwujokupaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapluonech.com/upload/files/66320988565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapopaxikazitepozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/tozetejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifefazata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/68612319770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/41939657225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afd6c78dfc---66719242975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barefoot.pl/userfiles/file/42353467461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/99899024845.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_off0000f4db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DB 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd39e70ecca82a61f1c6724ef30289dc3a9bc558b8e353aeabe1c5d0d96ca02
font_01_sfnt_off00012243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12243 10616 bytes
SHA-256: f7c347a38dac7610676c3dedfff9d5154ef12ea1306dbcf272c3e8692bdc400b
font_02_sfnt_off00013a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1