Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 919bf7475aa647c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f3c902ea93a287b6b0e5fd1695e010ba SHA-1: a0bd40d3f859584a637c80820a983d16b7e9213e SHA-256: 919bf7475aa647c0fef91d4fad34f1265344171d799967f02d4fbf92c19e668a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to facilitate malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9819

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 http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/190320316926.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/72324304443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4e1e6badd---79791009506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36bff545e2---81765944765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079892f0e8df---51712635545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/92833732219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/71815113986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/66881219786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/jifelavuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/95091550000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812b2229fea---98549255180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/pixopofafivimagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962c2be8b63---15744658094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/legilapubepozexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsgladysosei.com/clients/f/fd/fd76c46f75d01f7adbe86f52c2a5b8c1/File/tefevelosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4361e3bee---sapenujupenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073102a0def8---21853851481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/zibibipovodujetubakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea6544d9bd---90446442510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/fuminajamazozenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e21e9223486---zomilujasilenal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210530034405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfa96804653f958a7d3fc7da5236c63/71794012778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/81030021709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210522162168353513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70578172392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=elementos+de+coes%EF%BF%BDo+e+coer%EF%BF%BDncia+textuais+pdfPDF 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_off0000e929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE929 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001013b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013B 20724 bytes
SHA-256: e9fd03edcd821e4ab86cb0b23f60be024703e4baa415ac16e8e354e55b500018
font_02_sfnt_off00013478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13478 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 4a48a400d456cc0a6209694d8a9e6a4ff7c8471f832b1a72b430bae4d2961774