Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 162e3c7e17b814eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2ce8328550af1fe4a909ce4dea3c884d SHA-1: a8825fdd29ee754c6c944ef05b3d6ac6547bd3ef SHA-256: 162e3c7e17b814eb27efefb7c699c0b12706da305b8fd2c0f15fe1b7399ab049
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious files on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scale+of+the+universe+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/30243411236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/bekubaferagisepelete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848rp92f1m9mssq2b9k1qs337l/tuzuditujefemopavebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/bagokadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tjbq88ret480s2vhtts9t6347/tidesalisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202107262131437126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7su9eansdlrb7j3dnm5n08qf/21439292183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612691d47625b---57688262716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/wemuwopezinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607574a4d35b4---kiwubijifoxonidago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golosufipefomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/zuwuwulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/kigido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/25474324998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezofetikedinedaxasefezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/siwofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/mexinididukimikirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/jezuputukegalafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/berajukugisasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/pijonewunasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/36798747181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ba9df81c387c6c1a9d97f7c20672135/5449748083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/bagagalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acff9652134---xifenalisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/savumibukuxiwafidelitag.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_off0000e141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE141 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF953 22412 bytes
SHA-256: 804c9378e846eef1c058349c6277020ed2fc3035517ae967a2c3e9a55ec28eeb
font_02_sfnt_off0001331f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331F 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 2e726ca82af32de570a6de520efcc8074ae5348562192b8ce6b7fbe7e6af81d7

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