Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4619de35c09a9d08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 02:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1ba393aef4f58b0a926dadf374af9b48 SHA-1: c14471f1bad48e74084a019bbca92a74f2f4b5f5 SHA-256: 4619de35c09a9d08760dd9c93a182a2b180174bb04f9f0bfa4fc27d2829f5b31
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of urgency language in the document body further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuninejijiguripezegija.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081183b937c1---55974909445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19b4a1c142---87065796967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075225c550ff---90283760146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/39777344153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3903ad770850be04546f2d62ae1c0a/60067511494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/mefajalatokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/nizisebobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/noparaluzadokirimaweguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afe38d34cccb72152ed093bb0ab9e13/tavujujudizuzerazedumifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec9971e951---48942227072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///sisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/baxelepuravirako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosaneselutorevelarokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/kifisefawurejegipuxozodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/47246854533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/surirozoximonuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/32701918047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/pimosidetorogorutusaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67972e2192---24536451614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/13824172079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a882385a23e---nudinododotesejaweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/57959669954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhsclassof64.com/clients/b/b2/b21d6454c74b38f294a67049e63db9d7/File/41951410783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/11206435369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sore+back+after+runningPDF 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_off0000ea19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA19 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 816859c1065f36a73fd2b285197b97434a7a2b3571b16bff375d2399f774105a
font_01_sfnt_off00011648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11648 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 0b89eeb37b9d96ca48b490c6caaad5355f85b3c745a0c8d3aae543c613c0b498
font_02_sfnt_off00012f04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1