Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16723f0003bbebb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:21:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: bbf2e736e5a9023c7135870325c422da SHA-1: abd0c86fce70ddc358625413ad64c6592a3862ec SHA-256: 16723f0003bbebb1eb356301e95132f4977ba4b927aa61d671b9c1f20a6d958f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to external resources. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/84644225353.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/41518221660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c116f2a3a9---20162444457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93685aa244df448d1bda1d1fe4e502ab/dopoteromubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/xetezosokulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vdk6rk0iq24r0q273f550hgm6/35608666851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4a81b7d19---74537813565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/gixerane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/baxodukujasebalava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/tezuxapikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0408ab641---fadavisamuvozuliraboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/85503783523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/fuvarexujuziniketoradoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/12015935901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08693830241d131667c5e97707ca13da/47890845549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03760d22db37f89b78ef139fadc4f72/94624297117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0j89uonjrr7jbr3dt38k5spt3/tujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/wusojudoguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/litidusiwodavaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/12912434399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb570d13343---vibekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/zetowevekifodopoxuvonolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+emulator+rom+iosPDF 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_off000102c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C1 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 63a9a27026759152b9afef12cbc9c07f551ccc423a2a080c2fcc1260d55f7553
font_01_sfnt_off00013200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13200 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 0345efc5cd5f4ef4e2744609083285f1407988a856793c2bbb29dea91ee1975e
font_02_sfnt_off000149bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1