Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 116ab7d68b729e28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 20:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1e6d81d1f08e99942775c9b13abb66e7 SHA-1: fbd5d1f37fb97941a6f33f7e25d2ed8fa5358f5f SHA-256: 116ab7d68b729e281c6adf0bf23b8b6d88135887f12266cc958d9d75c6add5de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. These links lead to other PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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=what+is+a+good+hook+sentence+for+an+essay PDF link annotation
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c4faec218d4b84322233a504408656/42874089377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/woxekolevudasubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934b466ef5e1ac0a9b8948e8f6f1e973/xivexofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836bb408ea3---xepuniputugokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d27d5af4e9---12466901646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210712222155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f65fcd5801---tuwutabofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrp932si8jqmbup8210vun1m20/5596621698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e666944f0---55803326374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/7103883660ce44cd8f16b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difadogotixuvujosezajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7acbccpde3ls4bstsj92hmnf0/nuragarejamabusuluzapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/vomigowoporonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/93836862286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/21381443838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fae7e3dbc27---31876707390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/fasisomolopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f543a590b6---53232172929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/63768114888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/dekezesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/degirigomazaborejatomoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqkirokt6o144bvjk458ir6ukc/76870002200.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_off0000f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4B 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 08df925c2d4a1c560a7199b6976a55f8d91076a62de8770acefdf52f51cbd17e
font_02_sfnt_off000137e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E9 10908 bytes
SHA-256: cf75ec842dedba0bce5dc1cb7609c211397b21505aa027d5949e8ea579b99b15