Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f19031194b508a4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-07-30 22:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a2b83224345d6f73d6ba8571e2d7514d SHA-1: fb4cb3fada26e9a252811a8553c635c97513bdcd SHA-256: f19031194b508a4c75a1fc6569b01227621c934c924f3e592fdf65674ff84484
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tubidy+music+download+free+mp3+audio PDF link annotation
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8880b1faa5d0aea8d73096b148b6d4f/22589520449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prfb93ml7af5b2jvtctl2ruf12/xoleritigowunanemunolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f76cfb3925ce2129ceff0e9bbc12979/8634932506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91fefcf45c80361edd89f10ffc13055/85323092114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521170111988996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruegen-ferienhaus-schneider.de/userfiles/file/96781030070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847bd65ff1e---kefewiluwiruxadumopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a3b960be4---33115414240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s91q29n55u4vge7ipe5606n1hr/81510829860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88724449826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiendadelbordado.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutopuxosisijesezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/3532733861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willismctyeire.com/clients/c/cd/cd1fd5262213d36872a77bd42df049b7/File/bobela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa13face2fe---lilagetenetonofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/bivupifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a541a5322cda91daf6920ce2e825b894/nizeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413e5e06e93d64724011c78b9a314387/48353450097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/53242232022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c659d2e307dbd2f9af10ef63b127d8cc/sebesobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gc0abt786b6g2ce6ps91203n0/37914175198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/vewurexibijemewezekagami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607449ccc2abe---bulelaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/lejolemegup.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_off0000ca6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA6F 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 7df208ae0d94629cf5e29508dc5a1ea97491c9fb3bf2e37b92261b948d23d8a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF597 11256 bytes
SHA-256: d210e15510302e4b92cfbb0339818a63e1d5e9010d553d05c3db3f6fceef73e5
font_02_sfnt_off00010fdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1