Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c19df083ddfb0e80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 22:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d63e6ede7b235fc47d2247c638157749 SHA-1: b661eb1fa990a6fd55ab50b461d3c46f42c4cccc SHA-256: c19df083ddfb0e8029754b092f2fe1fdd9779678b863e4a0094d6f5fe51f025f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to deceive users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/81199576996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevijowogufofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec5a3e6e87---fimafogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/kiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9764050091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/zazida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ckpsgnkcgeo7ng3mhvcl7pr6i/90821072333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/sogetuduwizuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7uco8ietva8o73fq770rumep3/27280594107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8a49f19e3---64807627446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14036s9cpil6fo26pli15ao146/riputakeviludujusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a48fe3f6e4e691dfea48ce8aee50ce8/60964794327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9880d6a4efff5457f3f0410161058a50/76390368670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ac1b37b47bcd048e3a835900f9ff5a/97264453815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9ec7c0d1fd850e819245fdb5372bc7/92475514088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/rovobukusafexunusabaleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201b5c556195893561be44b1c1bc8743/sibenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c155e8b8ec2---73228705031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/lukutaxadowapanepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/mezuzatiwuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=usmle+first+aid+2020+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_off0000cdb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB4 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 7769341233a83b2973ea01323e4c23c315332162f617fe38731c4363620f3d12
font_01_sfnt_off0000e639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE639 17116 bytes
SHA-256: ca9bcecc10b72c301ff8221538e9638d349e173278b2d850d473da5d48dd72db
font_02_sfnt_off000112e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1