Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16430867242a4b0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:24:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 51cb214d14a1015d7a4c1224aa2edc4e SHA-1: 1724dcc712ab9426df6b11989d7fe4181e5f234f SHA-256: 16430867242a4b0c3aa162e392d0c9e7308fbaa43b59a94aa545c3fd5b3af00a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of distributing links, likely to facilitate phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=ashrae+hvac+design+manual+for+hospitals+and+clinics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1629658915_75d62c9284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610022f5ab9e2---vowefutoritifikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/valejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/86005313581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bthc6dra814l0gadgmqd2o9kop/91433644990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1cf639e881e395299f1104a63e4d46/99247220250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/51114676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/tidejiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimumixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9f66ac9d2---nefukizidene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/70610260022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076349b85b4f---watisakewima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c3b32617501746fd37dd5a0f3c3f7a/mapowodenojemuwexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b20abdc4e---rosisaderoginuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84585348648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108c6eb8f9cd---misixugidolifiruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210620094930_9w311g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/sepubanolupuneluwojusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/zigivumokumamuvefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/lonazetebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833a349bf6d---69259319828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/vilafufunibaja.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_off00013765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13765 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 99ad460da2f6cfbab475ec911a9594064530d2489a4126cc7faf75216032fef1
font_01_sfnt_off000168a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168A0 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 431149dd416a33e7c62779a043982c65474edcbdf1757f944e46704e88547afa
font_02_sfnt_off00018287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18287 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1