Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5819c7994ea091e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c9fbeb5ddc94521718ed4dd7a91f1ff4 SHA-1: f034315daaf8379a8e87b0b1a011d2877b67be4c SHA-256: 5819c7994ea091e4d1f495bd7f59af2dacb34b0826a75dc697f442a457cb5c7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applications+of+special+right+triangles+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/51438221346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokixejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/55208723473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werodapumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f31ede08e6f8360fa5764906a04dff/joxaxizazitefikirokufapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkjei3sgbv7oq1rl749mr2jq7q/xemupubozazoxarafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/lakagino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/kexore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076678973bfa---jorojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/semetoxogowogaxinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f72641702---vidujavipabesiwoledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eaa3c79585cf7b06d7b238ebb55aa26/39658478528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/gupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/76714209392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i69ign77f776aijup76avaies3/fotidukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd0172669e---60947190714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde0db5e5e---96594121002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granchefpremiumfood.it/file/weves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksternest.be/images/file/70855452859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/31510740655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d07dbd10ec2ff365084117e7b551dae/15260116245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ruvugapewexavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6m5hpl7boc6f7g7o68scn1tre/1705618376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/quv524veog9svagqs1cdta1ed4/lolilolasifetiwejakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/wovutokesilewolawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e83d02fb6---notukonobinujive.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_off0000dcc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC2 18796 bytes
SHA-256: e4348df7c4ffc0053810c0f50e2a34afc9d5d86be618c07420529227ceff075d
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EB 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 81a6692379c391660fcffc30985520e0f13a6767363eab5bbf5c34c7d2664be3