Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 819a7ef94010472e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 03:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 923fe5f0b278a4b854a0ac69d6a3c4fe SHA-1: 7d3048905bf9850882ba164b1f61a690fbc0604e SHA-256: 819a7ef94010472ebd26d00e97d486e4d2e7ccc86fd5d331dcf770635e94ffa1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or conducting phishing attacks. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/71579704181.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dop5vpqpv6sv3hjln2t3952en3/puwavukorotewezupotidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/60509687738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverbendhay.com/clients/4/4e/4e1cbd84181290ddb66fb035c9950ff6/File/55024208959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/dowojitejolajaxuxikowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/widiferok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d8a8661284b9afa71d84ecfc00976b6/80396041170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ee22aadbb---kunupufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/jajadobafupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7fd2ebdb5---2587533265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/wusubavimesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289d3e53770e982972fe113337aac1af/fisejukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/95895536901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da5cd2b350a---munigefimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b590cohku63klhuauban8ob091/54010411417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/4561472020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/27754896736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/39408183424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be443f6a9ae---90548797850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ded2ab9efa---72661436047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2rhut76a6m8ko0bb7v26f0rd2/jajodabajojonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac605a52edf---mumadozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/23473640304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/bb63d7b27d67e48c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55f9cc4733---zubonilejalonipanamapajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31567a83a1---97420028405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=osmosis+jones+video+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000e3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B0 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 19e9891a6a7a636dfafd36f71484f50b1fbe758f3bc5cab380259f00a4e75ec0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA0 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 94f89efc5407590229191fdf17d85b266d4ada0ec64e15529609570aac211170
font_02_sfnt_off00012599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1