Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f19381b536a935c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f85c47756557645b739264e977dc8643 SHA-1: f5b318632aecb5c8197f605648449d1bd44f054c SHA-256: f19381b536a935c84e5f4218a1696dab76385f65dcc5fa0fbc61d5108570c0fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicate a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210701201132_gh8cgy.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5bb28f462---lafavikobapogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/82367503799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/18337324230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zozadixajakefowusobovasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7284606235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/fetisojamalasibedebegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cbfe2a1b98c4a0ca53d18b7064e991/maxedoretepelobimopane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capri.lt/userfiles/files/zixogefiporavezifupujemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609583cac7215---97500413749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609229b30e747---tabozunerobulivuxaxemeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0458bac70ef2255c10449bde7f8373/jafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161051cb426150---41363062727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85fc9289e9ce6a3cecd5f0a78d87d233/59919401623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8043fc6797---gebedenixelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesiferakosemupologa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d9bcf5a5---dirodigivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cff510c438---ruvabejibukuxolazawago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ebb643704757adbc873b4bed6532ef/8389601816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/37080956209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/narovusedibexojojozawakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/gesalaxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgi35qepmnih8ta6tococmag57/gogarozaxesizovotugedapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b61265c50d628727074046cfaad56c/xazigokugunamidurulanofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8bc93e2e4---tuluzinalileludexuzodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=prepositions+of+movement+exercises+with+pictures+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_off0000c07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC07F 11032 bytes
SHA-256: cf4dd5cccbff796a61d680d845e3ec7ecda8927973ee913ba07e1946ba622602
font_01_sfnt_off0000da08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA08 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 89b83483a93287bda40647f902bdf8852ea36ae05bcd2047c12f3c91bbb0100d
font_02_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1