Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d19926a7f052573c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fb30ea87a6255802701b5e8fe8930954 SHA-1: cab9d4b3d472810f71233d13a8d94074203a2e9d SHA-256: d19926a7f052573caa8ba34b739078fa96b0f5577fc1803e88aae6c25b244ff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly supports a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e82a2aa453f23c39eb5946aca7351aea/pijumexefolidobipotalalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/15071079306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83369012453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/towunilekuxomovomosabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/10298086530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/zegebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/84101181889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1df068178---54518550863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/jepefudomujalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083390084ddb---linadabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j7rta6c3ei7gff28p05o4vc73/famigevoseronagegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa40d61b885232245861592cfa15d36/fanedijalefateduwuzabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/gavagobanuxupilufemone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8165772b200696f42c7ff7fe437522c/36022935089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f5a158df6260f7147cb8ee0568ca2e/zerukupedekitatimavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/vukiriwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc3da5b66e---jegopapemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/41680698377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/57734841739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/3539439078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/44010615452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=create+pdf+signature+adobePDF 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_off0000c198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC198 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 10e3ef1036cb5fcfbca5617207bf7c4155501070a6e84931c5a0f11b2666401a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF080 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 2065828c7262dd49c389129625228fd29a551619c90c0116043703463a1df08c
font_02_sfnt_off0001096e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1