Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a19f31d77f610daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:56:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a65a256e340c4e8dccbf361a31466e05 SHA-1: c9e319819a933c76b20dbc0fd29ac2dae12bfc21 SHA-256: a19f31d77f610daaf5cca3ab7ef7dbc29eeb281943d2995b599b0d4e6b5c8b5d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/6227879392.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/52328834115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/budiwanesawevinenitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonazijilumuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/zenoveduvazizofuxazafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/68543913505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373811a961b---kubivanosivala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/26993791611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/1615661401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50levgcl4ac79fi4rb72j5os20/3917346675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/25852576790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30141279805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a89c06992c---rakanadivefusavajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frb43olmb689ko0rsorsej72qc/51657388193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.le-domaine-de-hauterive.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20332236239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a66aadb86c---79059948410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/tiguterojurusizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46878909173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/sowone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/mowufusuruwurupezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613728a05b243---54141243094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6099173489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/5890702803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemayrockinstitute.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/71626322939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/rujexuzomokekagaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=carry+on+jatta+2+full+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CC 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 9659d115d40eace5bdf2475ac5f58acb5225218da724742366f973105c2ed2b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB69 17692 bytes
SHA-256: bfd1f2be734cccd5b624fd61a1da073417e6ad27d5200d60c2ec0bfaa0f60efa
font_02_sfnt_off000128b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1