Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 519731bf1886acfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: eedb02a7f80a0054d8b96ec56bde19eb SHA-1: bff8059539875a4566f9bae2f4aebef3e3d86e8d SHA-256: 519731bf1886acfd19a8bc6b496439e931de6d4dac19f70a06a53b38863c30cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites that appear to be part of a link farm, with some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised or disposable hosting links suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rpmsg+to+pdf+converter+online PDF link annotation
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31846947851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/77413456602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3c0622a54f66c25802753395cd0669/gigesenafetilipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/75427848781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badgerhillfarm.uk/genexoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/mapulororadexumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/pejuxobolujewosomikaribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/55952480953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trystsalonri.com/images/file/68386158956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/18487537645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpqnef9e0f3c3t6b5gbsbavkh3/sekigixadotudeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d24c2e7c3482d175c5b508fb3d5264e/33336282019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/32816489470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/36553030451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ee37eea92---pixavegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/gedisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81535155466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/8320187590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/74277043943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_79D7DB4E174C8580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/98827270441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/rapoguredufewezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa688a6f1b---78921240071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109130232465450.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_off0000e1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E5 10912 bytes
SHA-256: bc29dd71601cfd4034904d074c124da6eded0199de3f121818405b9cae3a2769
font_01_sfnt_off0000faea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEA 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 82170c3e9725c70a516132c5f02d3bc31968e3eac871a4c7772d123f695f2a65
font_02_sfnt_off00012a0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1