Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 319f9d6cabef8c9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:35:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e5ec9ff8b6f5dfc0fcca5f90b8cac826 SHA-1: 0fe1d949164cf2ed52295c876bf236e462ef3aeb SHA-256: 319f9d6cabef8c9b6689bc328d9d23f062f1f8ba761485bf6ff292eb4edf8e87
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, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in one URL further support a campaign aimed at user deception.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+world+cup+2018+schedule+pdf+download+usa PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d8f7b09a1---80459634043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749df064548---xogaxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a705e7cd66---diretizidoluvepoxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef89a232f09b98049180e319a651e47/21943271436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbefa0c406be4c3545041fb0186da658/91388565387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rii18vb1udr51dgidcii66ka30/pidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99559121554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4959c975143203a6ac07667a7ea16b63/85087948006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/sowuwuzuvumukulifabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377d5cb9e216ffbb7996ba0ecff61886/21495248967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb9bae30ef---fifuzowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893f47affec---83713742588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4569c191eb1f3fa3cd5776d330541edd/84687513848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/55032568183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/93061854227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/60138597699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13e2082e70---69405117887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/30338720317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad8822b26b---37780958994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/50734378720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d56554bf1---82904313545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/pogubur.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_off0000c915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE127 19436 bytes
SHA-256: e74b344d6f3132f0b5e9842f61d84c7003ff43e02f49d95a26305b0f80680f24
font_02_sfnt_off000113a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A8 11284 bytes
SHA-256: c9aa20ddaf9990dca9c13520ef57c7c82303b083e943ecd2b665d0869b21657e