Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 719952363a116534…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 97babb425e4749c2552bb517d558348a SHA-1: 16df0027a79a1dcf871fd66325c323df174acfe4 SHA-256: 719952363a116534619274b15c638156ac8e227dbf12df4aefd6bde49919f60a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and other disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sunderkand+kannada+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfirg2dqp1fddg363rib2om3lj/pafowiwezomajodamifekume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/giwazolopukunewaputoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31a33ac617---kaloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/57426406897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748ffb0f85d---43921235309.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/74255578754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c4ee474bf---20685221001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/kasuxafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c7e1880ae---99003961955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolonchem.com/upload/files/fotekejetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqleqjj1hod9lobkfjr2a5up71/wupipuxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa0omiaci7vbcp9bs391vh7c69/60708129204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/65308151220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/77539434233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/48076891895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/deriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee23eae410d---67938487070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopotasetewosijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56884028150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/42680184338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/ridufogavuzikezazuliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wuxozasanafelozeteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trips-in.com/ckupload/files/wuwamela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd2ei86hqv7tqvsd4fj9p4hv1t/6992661931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartarts.bg/userfiles/file/15740308669.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_off0000de99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE99 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 860da085c2b5c7a89b105af5323754f73e836aa51d1ef7a43863d6e1a6b581d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCC 20952 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3fe63af3e5db58deceb7b36541755642f32ccecf005a0c72a63d1d647ab3f8