Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 016e9e56a92a0fb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-10-13 02:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e1f5e93c1856023849b69a19f214bb77 SHA-1: b61edbb3d27a65e32a87d6678dc71a18229fe4ce SHA-256: 016e9e56a92a0fb1d3a30880f59db0d678edfab846c4411efd936668cc1d091f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the PDF structure strongly indicate a phishing or SEO manipulation attack pattern, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+calories+in+a+bottle+of+chardonnay+white+wine PDF link annotation
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/75074247631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/zapelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381f2a03fc9---77276216494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/59152438227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b635db3c258e9498f90844afbde529/fetigizokiponuvajogepewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/poxobalewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/lezofadekisudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65222927559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazezoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/favikebuzoxezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/daroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135515943ee4---74543284843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/lesanixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/kugexebekivegotariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/74588303845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4els.ru/uploads/images/files/vapapavofatevatejepagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/tadosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/jugufogipusener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/85478022490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/dotuvuxopenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/satix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/93181692305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/nosimunabamesodubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55848930e90e935edd201fd8c3ef928/6474956619.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_off0000e0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F7 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5c56ee0729ecd619c8b122c5d8da3c5b3fdee85b666a35c86f940f739789f6
font_01_sfnt_off00010f78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001278f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278F 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 3882b86f35091a62367118fd3718598e0400ece6688d939aaa287af4202312e9