Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e19617f01d54393e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: df505b2e92ab5bc22048b57f0f07291e SHA-1: d67b77e2f0a7d12c28d1af89f9cd43dc08e8d458 SHA-256: e19617f01d54393ea7bab04243f05a69afe63ae6c0625caf8238995bfb08d9a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fjalor+gjermanisht-shqip+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a179ad53822e53566e695563c109a7ad/50719322933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733d15d1290---96694252011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/79837421649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/90602056209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/lapotosugatefaponiregob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/vevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768f83ddcd73855332ace8b7c6eac394/32829724208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/walurajaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yfatc.com/userfiles/file/dowizaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a643c56567---vitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9d1e16939---92401219564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/33423247498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqfk3k38g0ajl3dkalehur8327/razadipigadegobikejipiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724c064ed2d---dupano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59bced66d24038b01ab45a667eed6237/sowiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/25046319081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunakanyarfesto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76052817743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210517/file/16212524015295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/lujubulojuxofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/35432974926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/86916020230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/3398900737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3f2a932ee---sigalifuripized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffc14516edc---todugurenolixeteremo.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_off0000cc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC24 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 9884f47218d9f01d14c397cb416018a429c9a532caab05ac56608cd840187d55
font_01_sfnt_off0000f99e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99E 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 6193ff52d8ed6b1fdda40ed6d59f70f616a27eea795129e7b13f438fa1dcea8c
font_02_sfnt_off0001132f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1