Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da19e64de5667a54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a076cd77953ebabdb50642d8d1b311e0 SHA-1: adb2879e050df51dea9ce8106acb5227203dfa8e SHA-256: da19e64de5667a54645e3a3c3e252c474041ffe143ed0d5527bfdba1cd5b9a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, serving as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to lure victims.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=three+volume+novel+importance+being+earnest
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c440d06df8---59265987074.pdf
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/49416571356.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/191651c727c7471b3aa8f67e5b33f048/18119653603.pdf
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810345f0242---malexanoweg.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004358b176f0dd902c326dc7c61ca5bf/60642960587.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a4c912d5b259035f459a190a077400/25480822041.pdf
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/16532974230.pdf
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b928edc97f986d2024b8d06f5d5de7d6/18581780781.pdf
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/bejemibokito.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858f7ed5376---56031835311.pdf
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/nubodibusakume.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ga1kbs3hjulo17rse6l7eok6id/guwupuniz.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/29267520387.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f721ae4c59d5e500d501583abe344c/48439843418.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f802cac01---42448760039.pdf
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/govex.pdf
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7b87f36975db97fd8ef1e08b7ad5e2/24077724254.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/44612921390.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d0240b2963ee1df373c24dcf493c8a/26514519275.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23baca400d5481af77e9e6a75c33784/ledigifaxikoti.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501165604104197.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001059c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011dae.bin
aa0a067987ddab5e3779028a03ae93772b65ec589d612268cfb943978d5b90e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAE 17640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014c0b.bin
bde29b6204604bc3d12ab48bb2e2387d8eee7f0981a1864657d328fca3e6e28c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C0B 11092 bytes