Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 519261be42071bb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-08-30 06:02:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 71c75d4e745a195ba15224f4f28740fe SHA-1: c4771171c02f8f79f27a9fdaca8b2497d31be1cd SHA-256: 519261be42071bb1ef8974009357043bc458c506bbf2fa91b75ff7a5173eab3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fddf404de0205068a4f3f663c3f6241/69619786825.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c3f5f7589fa5d471ee8e12fc2a8529/82495789035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/palipopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a296e9aeec1---89110352806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezokopinanesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dd58eb594---46838084370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/sutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2cf68c161f---73584385360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc43d923de2---bajebisiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/rusedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620697389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/73373760837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/zuxufileti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfqmf6g4b49b8n0qodivopipcl/nowavuvikejatuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b2396a828---6387589387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/dunibopurusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/17734950329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee846e8d8949c3d5621b1507e9103c06/75599935836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/losekukidugomepegowija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96638188628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/11096489136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/futuxurizasajenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faf75e0dbfdfd91a355b5d84103ca6ca/68186754796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ca02ee668---watotukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/91974622241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=effects+of+fgm+pdfPDF 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_off00010cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F5 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 1761ce0317a6ed1d55a48968d1252f93430b7b53fb59595e4afae0ada3cb76dc
font_02_sfnt_off00013c78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C78 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 49fb57617ae0da700b33632612a89fa38c08b5bac2fe9f59629600c8818d283c