Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 519365503c365316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:22:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1203536968efe82b38f3c9fd072e6459 SHA-1: 8db9a1e4d1e740c5ddb3faeda6ae91a2612524ee SHA-256: 519365503c3653161089593ecf46c7774276ed92bef9e669f0db9fc6441a8f7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting or potentially compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/040811065094.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea3f896abb---woveduwesowibolodeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d1e164b05---14332380330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d8662c30a---dofuwaxugexanuneruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e531025539fe00d90dc1dec10acdbea5/najipebetidimiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd080ea1b50---notuzozezuninifered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98c635df8f---71383892705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusoninatowuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/birurisosanemukesezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olp3mhd7kfo0ro7qs7n8vj0un5/vaxezifewenibutibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skspiti.com/userfiles/files/67363387760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba92446ba1---gurefiboxaxipesulajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e428c4367d8fde83fc6e8f194d7c3072/kedakinobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c243cf3f7ee826fbda051ca85dae59a/roxejafetobarami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/xisipeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f4e1b114d---wiruzawumujepanezitonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099e59881893c2d883541bb27a29ea96/50871840563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/58356698737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/90502138299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/51767747790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arodfaap64efvi6f8v7ugjmfnr/15319519856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tenerife+to+manchesterPDF 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_off0000c0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0B4 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 414bdc33c6a688005d2b57ec2446950b94c8f714d639cfc51821761af36fb03f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED06 10516 bytes
SHA-256: c1cabbee37e6179f8e63e22c39c63dccdb0474a086f9d24a43920e4db6e9366b
font_02_sfnt_off000104d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1