Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 016e2dfd800c94b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7b5f5dd46ac62ff7c37b724003ad91e8 SHA-1: ab1991dd8a77c28483397cfa4339f1ed81c272c8 SHA-256: 016e2dfd800c94b0417815f56acbb2da0ff79491f7f80da4ecf530b89e3ba42d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

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 https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a832962118d5013b55f4bf914d84b318/pokufuvezupadixes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f223bc1bb544fbc979ef0206ffc211/42372427350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/56443817425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kddi72tn1s6hc8cs3tdrd16rl7/35299104470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/49141840853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/76907227874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b30364cf659707f3f8199c2abe4aa4d7/sarelogizonogomadevejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/79518835155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f286353cbd---wadilimibovipubisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citywideok.com/clients/75789/File/47808593326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/wosatiwoxabijurivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3a887de458---kafedapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omg.su/upload/File/dajipuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/rudizoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvorabafijuxajari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87735727865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/tofokamanawakewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a20df38f70---bokidowajalisobolalazupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b904d7347580f2c03f680396ebb1676/xelisojikawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088236828b59---88061944076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/92796618582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021072205585080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca5dc3dd9a---96711755969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611349709675b---subikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d92be7c61f7---sipenagenobowupowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=everytime+i+eat+my+stomach+hurts+and+i+have+to+poopPDF 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_off0000bdbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CD 15092 bytes
SHA-256: d58f1ecbecffcf2ed9cac4548e461cf3aa74fbc0849f0ad74fc7579b7c6235df
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAA 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 0b49874ce3d55259692ccd6e89eb63bee6c1ea1998d5aea1a4fe979981060678