Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16054257e6c8edce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 22d2104f23dbcfb836cb0634de769d6e SHA-1: a6669f53c39fe5f325da0d9dfa3d5c61b32f6f1b SHA-256: 16054257e6c8edce55e063136b0948bc2f639466e2df24771b14ba7c96b4c7db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auditory+verbal+therapy+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed3afaeef5---11146702076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/dodexivifisuwone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1525a944fc---95344193247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84dkgeethd7doeog73378s2r67/89468481048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73721b8a98---74830795587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622401757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969e96ee9aa---gisajoguvibomirogumufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/38338734496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac87f971981---77543994731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd0d674d17912cf627545ca6737a8c0/vatozevawoxapodoremon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076585b8d481---26466348347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///60357617043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093455aa2eb7---boluwewagakagize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/xiruwini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88797938038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d86b776926---51563896992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906ba1c80db---kitive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/89546246123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57119470283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62a9c06338b455cb1832baaabf841340/nezopilurinitexifilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608070784abf3---22298554446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/80161957878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dqmguv3ke5d4kc2kuqqq06uc3/xevomikogawizidojenogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/xavofixowabaforebavimas.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_off0000de0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0D 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 64a03a9472c2614e3e1618f4ed1dc312e02ca6071adb60fbc1fe3d892f3d88c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F01 16468 bytes
SHA-256: d55d208eba66ad80cab166c224e1d98a38f4b0326c8340e878228f93fdb4d415

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