Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c619931cf819a793…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 54e1910d3edc7978064e072f0d550fa5 SHA-1: 832f0975156990e926f8df06ed9018ad7071fd4f SHA-256: c619931cf819a7931ffbcfd1a1871a353f3bcde11c8132034bc6500e4c665041
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cape+may+luxury+resorts PDF link annotation
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/gunowovevexejofubudifukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/91054489389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/858b1ca80e5e1398c2ae708024420b76/petaxonezuponiwosisobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/sumobimepoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd4765cf91---29393275499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477d90a233---woduzamepoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1884d78e99---74391555218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396ae9ef2a23954044b44ab5d0dbff74/jaropimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936aae3cfa60b467bff7bcffd91b7977/pesowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210614125732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/lirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083390084ddb---linadabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/78689506947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c034d3122---98676232320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/lapokezurabupebafuwapura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071751b9df23---pimekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/nibitujonajufonewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57c67e391e---64662828138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8e472aba3---66593011859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7198636baf---18937592170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8d0ccb31c---33937261212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a3a2bcf136df3f35e885dce529a4a1/fomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a08c50960---59043216663.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_off0000f28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA4 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d73ed1dc6e62c2466bff0bf8dd69b7d1fc7edc3f07f8c00da94d28d2734e962f
font_02_sfnt_off000122db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DB 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 864e79fc5a890eb29cee88df2895c63858cb3c55d0c2fe9d7e43c7e5db5e0bd8