Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 919969a413d455a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:16:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 492bc1c6095da087f845968e016eb6d0 SHA-1: 85bbb0d8a186078914af255982fd8470fb0468fa SHA-256: 919969a413d455a2c0cceefb658d2c54199123f704c586c68be3ad1eda760baa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF structure suggest it's intended to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/xuxaguxitusumotutamun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/21280575384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9541f7b205---kigajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99138729690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/51697842876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210628103337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/96955434894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6e868b4e28---feparuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qldjo6bbeobgpaiknqhc5ii9p/79522156512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/73842585303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/64033581544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35041166978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1684662a5f84b880a9d27ca8a1da7fe4/tagana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/76689447102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/bopixijewiwabemilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/pubezeloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/64016677982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076476f143a9---xejesegaroremibanugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/47134577082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466c57dbeca7a94fcc78cddade2ee158/43397334607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f543a590b6---53232172929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c388858bbd6---mananeripemexemuzenukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/49794770374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f95660b25---35451153141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=xps+to+pdf+windowsPDF 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_off0000d551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD551 17688 bytes
SHA-256: af6cf060074c0c9536d7841b98a15136f2523f581adbeaf111247e329fb4e125
font_01_sfnt_off000102dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DD 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 355f815e879c7158e19cd06009c0060d1e1bb20091b1e022c53560e9b13cebbd
font_02_sfnt_off000119b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1