Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da1c19e2c0168e96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ca0b8e7ddb2ab37aaa696f920e5125d1 SHA-1: debc2bdf02ea62a1d2607ae5bb0ec5502a5e6daf SHA-256: da1c19e2c0168e969d44763b51fb77814c44863c8370829c63ce3e48c291f033
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI findings and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead users to malicious or compromised sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://taniaandjohn.com/clients/874109/File/73279381107.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv31k8mbhndh9rmpl13unkcf2i/4069678697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021081606495973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/sudemilufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/83661632557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36e96427d1---tufibedotaxaguvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/wixuwuvevalejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/36868754138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29ed31a6935159f875626d07b28d4d30/jelokibelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/84910998453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2togh6jucro7u1np2gjke67j0/69919100825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/87047453641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/bivepasefuxowawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72334129876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/99717053101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32fa789f7---xakanakemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6caa74pqloatglehb9jibu3cn/xamamalefawixejuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9f8d30795a06e8a49a126a4c6187bab/92091512160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/gewozuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/wuzupiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/9994895051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffd25086c5a---53237290059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=gottfried+bammes+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_off0000c524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC524 14580 bytes
SHA-256: dbcab2d75bc071bf5c406f3ba22db1431e2b718ba4d08864d88b05b43a4552e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001023d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023D 17904 bytes
SHA-256: f47703ff953791c1710e01806cd31968d3ab4ef31508c5b67970cc5d42bebdbe