Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a19067af9f281780…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 12:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 93ac22b8f3cd6573d7ea1cd3704a1c9e SHA-1: 8d2da5714542471f3fa2a01f2a28e01d33f7a244 SHA-256: a19067af9f2817802c8c88baa81d34a8abafc75b0d0598e0dd65cf2505b00ff6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size, image-only content, and embedded action triggers pointing to external URLs. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovofuvawovukanetoxewiba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/231916232088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/sesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yey.uw52.com/upload/files/wiberodarexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/32388732835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/69791760410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/mutipiroluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okvin.org/userfiles/file/vamanixofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5545979eff8dd1ed51d1627c515f2530/40715162077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/fusubudopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/xewegokepadeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharev76.ru/userfiles/file/jemokowirixofulobemupito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/888972085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymjgolf.com/file_media/file_image/file/fivomadiranoxagowuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/tepitovopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/56958246647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metroboxservices.com/upload/ckimage/files/7277613097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/188638890561433214a1bee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/36419764004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hortherbpublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/36839631039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71779c5edf53e34e0d094a7f798ab02f/ruges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/71274670045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffiaqujbd162ip2h8c80s0t6f4/50730689630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+to+sd+card+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91862692476.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_off0000b313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB313 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 3f800e22658c5e9d1045342bbe1e8833022fd8e2f36f38a2b80939229b223056
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE331 13840 bytes
SHA-256: 4abd4f1dfe870d41545ba11b822583e4dc3185e9ef536f45d811a8d510387bff