Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1616da8e5bb82186…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 073724356f97bfb22f43c3ba3f874ed1 SHA-1: 455fdaab5a7b4f2f6dc0a68f584da6a5036853e3 SHA-256: 1616da8e5bb821866c5f0874a9bcd0b433840c00a774313ee10af53dbfbd4996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains flagged as disposable or potentially compromised, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://placc.info/up_image/65841245575.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/79709503060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021062300474078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e8c908bb5---dalovuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0is3rpph22ik5b1915bu1h5d9/gewodesagodunivosexitegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/buxojixotusasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/dugimimunobukesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/goxamijemebewofafigelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a30efba828---84100639809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c374c611b1---85923567920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ceaaq1o05jg4ih5e7lhh242fh/gorupewisuzetudupuvexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/26075510592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c589fab7140---85665703708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874fcf9c18c---35323675446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7883cddf2a86768653c170ea986be5/22686443896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b7808d99118de252450859bb291bd3f/pibuleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d4ec0f6343537526e905c71937e0c6/67146887021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74c77ecfa8ec377db658124283ecc016/nuvabiwipefavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36fe77dd43---47514165866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d003b6908---dowofejesasituwufuwewoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e0ee056a3---97297648670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0111deb5b9---99539497692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741ca97d916---nitofoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/69021636082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tobias+in+the+biblePDF 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_off0000bd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58D 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 0842b726cb8fb237975862f2cccb5b654ab98b4cd9bfccaa56d634a6ceaa1b97
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC68 15736 bytes
SHA-256: 3f31a99ca2a6725c987a90cfe35386e4ad6efae082fcf24ff38c8298666c741f

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