Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 419755fc700a40b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a259af8c5aff4d0cfa20cd93c00191fa SHA-1: 7aa9f94422f4548a0176a2d20facedc9d63503f6 SHA-256: 419755fc700a40b5dcc3fd15520a24054c48998685d976751664949144ca027c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. ClamAV and an ML classifier identified this PDF as malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links suggests an attempt to evade detection and maximize reach.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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://asi-filter.pl/files/file/58145813505.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ac2e6c6f---34565993996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/50280732166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c75a6b5f40fdbc3a3ff36fc142fa2fd/kosuzitamigemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c7c7d3a35---89952598149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210um9kervs5v32rb6c2je3q23/toxenitiputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1a1b0aeb8---rajiwexodirudenikako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7eaf122ccf48acba6064272bd7bcd1b/25850643031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/paduwizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29089b1f8d---99350934629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/vujaxolutadumupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210603004305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5130d6853d28fbd9de1963dc441787/98514219614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/87528658869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c512e21cc40---sopawalewuxexamidule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b366e99b6c08a7773d428cbd7ba171ea/kenapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/80503881040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084abd16532b---65740240387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/rilitobapugimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb66241275---nokobijugoxujokewojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805a2d8c822---4434151012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.ca/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/1827682301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/rutemuwokoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74601943969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/zixugotaboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+container+tree+nursery+manualPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00017cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CBE 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 6673a8cdf3c08f00ae20d656f6f5b616333596189b6a936c772bc39280bb3f7a
font_01_sfnt_off00019515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19515 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ad27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD27 19840 bytes
SHA-256: e7c1120f1bf6fd8eb6b0963686dabb1d2c40c8ad7accd1f625013463185416f8