Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 162f1c48a08c895f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:28:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 68bdc2b5516c38cc34b89d6623a79e70 SHA-1: 2d71034cae07bcba03d998701b389dae5e4e47b4 SHA-256: 162f1c48a08c895f57d4ff9ed87c76be26385e6adfd78c8c300ef13d5e66824b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+pdf+mag PDF link annotation
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/motariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/29757735071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/54854417610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202109020149396804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/94298340576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/topogegozopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/20528652322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/25365362242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/leledafukikibuterametegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/kegitabadaxizavamenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maquinandoysubastando.com/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/doxovomazotajazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/rojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9372383763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/81400574200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109111759096405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efe053f6eb---10635356162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents/files/fufeniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/77518373289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/rosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e34a99f918---zesagozumipogugeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613319ecec515---45622479104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5218471358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/86183368830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/funudurujina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/86673183322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/3038381803.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB03 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 192f5b9acdfc9be8630856c59f036677562fc98a48a327aabf74c13fc7ffc23c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF189 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF981 23612 bytes
SHA-256: a730b5896975ce8291ee1417ed1f9931456698f40d76d8030d258b0236d901fb
font_03_sfnt_off0001353c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1