Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16622d503261c620…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-29 15:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fad0a7e0122ab2e9ff7dcaa941a37504 SHA-1: 853680e96e1f27aece63227168ef2d677e65606a SHA-256: 16622d503261c620ef1c32e8d9ca79e5d64942a9d055fc6f2e6471a3d284355a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing malicious links and being part of a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure suggests it is designed to lure users into clicking on these external links, likely leading to further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=green+lake+holes PDF link annotation
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/37639914297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e62d12f20---botikupisebanojaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/24957778527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/kilodupifiwuwugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/fibujizubozirumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/vupofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bf3551a17---mimalekesokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38ea77cd25a324c7d4b939147882b362/lovipepaxewagesipopijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/fagoponuvokesotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/57427604007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37162455087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/dewinakoromikefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a40364ed9---90703267379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/50325657840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/71654836222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegakufijomuvosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/64572045135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/fitekuwowudimigarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/fokasujusewekanemimode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84586494241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210917210032513399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/dojolezixaxitikewasekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2r4s28968q48veudo9s1tdii4/xepegepuwogofividivefudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitsatodorova.com/uploadfiles/file/95646958787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161494435f2831---zuwevuvepelitinapodel.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_off0000b2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2ED 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 6ffe6a8118918e9a9ddea22ea330bd5d827041cb01a21ac43be1ed64f2bcac62
font_01_sfnt_off0000df92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A9 10148 bytes
SHA-256: a3949eba8a1a88663809d51cf122aae76d8d6ade769b5136061abc9fd811bd66