Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a19ddf71766c5b28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9409e3c289ad4261a86babc3e0c09741 SHA-1: 1a3d183fdd808acdeaad54da0f7cef75957268bc SHA-256: a19ddf71766c5b282ef7590083e5ca960036e02b1811e61f57bb073e154b259f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These sites appear to host further malicious PDFs, indicating a multi-stage attack designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bbd31aee1---muvibusodiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a1423652---24585232006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa3c7cd3a5---pizalukopugosifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fda66c1735---51329693796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtglntsinp7su4ga5t36kb2df7/gevonapizapufitotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e18be63de1404e66f67e9860cabef728/78226454787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d28025b3919---23146855249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3426b66c3---temez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/fulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/vuwikokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c897cb827fec7096fbf363334d9ddd/28186036707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/weloxaxejexikoxinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/71372714768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71029708858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f22e5e8867a4919a5c9e088f14279b/84215397480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/demosigukirimepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80l25bbant4681ifk137bpe6c2/woxabikolitakufijogaxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/49903582846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222e8dda97b3868665c4c938a717f8ff/10628546841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/36231241885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/74026460338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/72426288929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adk5dunmm3p3n2ejv34piuk45m/sazixegupanobuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609861d1cd86b---fowegapobugimeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf94d05165---kezulelireji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=conventional+x+rayPDF 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_off000102f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0A 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 08a978d6e8843939b6a3c3a2b50ffaf36cf7f2c88b3edba3770c27b9e141c93f
font_02_sfnt_off0001323e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323E 17632 bytes
SHA-256: cc73ffdcc637169ec917a89dc5184e079debee08d71ffa56629f5ea2a0b9d2f2