Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 116d6bcd71e092d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 22:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c27b7a298444290a2324b38d4902b5b SHA-1: 267a51795f11bb077a508f38714512e401ae8f9e SHA-256: 116d6bcd71e092d86dbc832a66e8bbf6756f0917fa8d0d0d67aa5b30fd86e35a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://classicandcamper.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3kht8e2p6fqtb33vs5bf2vcpf/45651123120.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aaa1aee676---rukuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/fibeferodobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077926582e93---raxuworewiruxajuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36e88c6ec6---pumowutuvewopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabogajomodepagorigogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/7263225463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/mubuxuduvosepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba8436fd1c---nebodoxaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607700af69785---35339333175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086924578007---kobezivasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovatidapulazezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c039130d0a4---lazotunozuvatokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/gobupepiripori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74204101125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf71868c65---nisijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/46392204619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785fd23399a---repalasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/75960720366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/pemugarumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/86872272784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/zujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ue64b91qqkbv2k4ngjbgruti/57362657674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e83c84fbb3fa051b331952ac0a7b4952/xolebujuvisanopofela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hard+riddles+and+brain+teasersPDF 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_off0000fcdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDB 16696 bytes
SHA-256: e8d2cbc614591fc86d4a02408bd7580b3ae557ce9b44f986dc7d7e4cea18f84f
font_01_sfnt_off00012860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12860 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14077 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 139dacd0b8c4d46e89a6558ef72fca4186cd381707cecd30ac09fe22cd29e311