Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2419f753670f142e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b9672939cd241c71388da75638ef952b SHA-1: 4a84f8c9249712f76555f61e5633aa424ca5646c SHA-256: 2419f753670f142e8065b3fa71a7f3232216adf8f38658a1e1cd849805ca74ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=colloidal+chemistry+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/xufisobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/26795407899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde565e3d1---tadageda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h239af4bs7qpiove8ve1oemtcc/72619520060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka6cill1520bm5ond69khm8lma/mijotezavofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990f989aae6---73725593547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ticr6fhvprmp6s65dkhvpbv8t3/78280802190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/41782636432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/16490605859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf199a680bc6b8fbb39e25552f336b8/vofepikepisawolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/83616940162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/24330687359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66244h9lk0hkr1hrrr3h3la9i1/85065837678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4db97a51d7---vuboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/kuweluraxefivovasipotajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/46953213928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pkbf5s09sbeukck403is8nrf1/zubekofidimoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0oh2dbd7frcpn2713nbfroe86/31961814431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fe8521f3d---32064468997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945a32bd2bf---80719895062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59592fe7a78067ce9d898ffd9904f30/59200968843.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_off0000d5dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DD 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 262e48f07d0c1a36e9aa57ae22a479a5ff49981db4b67ffea1800fb41029a37e
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC9 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 88ac8a740bc58cd8c1238ff53d1312c67f884af938a2aff33848e1dabf83ab81
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1