Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c19febea8a913281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:21:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8708dfcd9dc6a6f02070b07225ad7db8 SHA-1: c8b8e9c794a6063bf8c360af703d897878e6fb9d SHA-256: c19febea8a913281871549f4421e7cabfc0e452de58f7c975b4a945504e733b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://espokebar.com/uploads/files/12194527032.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5ebe4312a212369e4639526420883f/25220081232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/86284867235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cf77d176a---xawexijera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc0efd07c1---jinepotexijurikuzunawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855d45421d9---70063074293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aonmev9ipgdo76pt90kbog2n6/27514156239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/44830535475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc17f144f31c110295f9116240c48f55/58798236191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/mitubuxutopimojupimagosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1973e63103e3dc6eb5c8dff36ea02425/xasivelalivaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/kovupawobibojodevelikebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/072aefd7e098e29d4e1db83d0cc92148/lesijopolifosega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/molezonugawipexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a612f31a6c552ec26f22bfcd9ef68d7/53530048133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214292248596371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49cada8f0ffa2b942b6222d1c4456e31/jenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7fakrjtovrjmfp2npu8q2t2i3/94897576829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/34301052956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/lobapinobizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51cde2786eda408488b2d9974b4630de/tinifazibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0338162a5537001a8f96ba3736475e06/kasuzima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/93917257884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+parotid+glands+arePDF 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_off000113b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B1 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 59fa7197c5024212f76a27a2856bda817f556d5b9b8d87d43b66086751fc22b8
font_01_sfnt_off00012bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB9 20452 bytes
SHA-256: c96da17966794e7292fb0969b5c8bdd9f419980b27f0268786e68279c1e20bc3
font_02_sfnt_off00015fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1