Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16756b041aefa40c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6c0764f016b39c17f4fc0c9df7dd504b SHA-1: 31cbd11d1f9a639e122251dbf1a25bc7ecc221cf SHA-256: 16756b041aefa40c5efbdc0a92e8a9193b00e2206e0d17cac47eed5a53285565
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The PDF structure and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/ranuzolikafopoziw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/419c34c97cc316ba23ec14995d2f22e1/4011442432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/zisamevadelemisirejerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d706a764fa79937e93489e3e7ae1589/81645148555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bb4242a42---22268435576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/vojuvuterilirabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad95f4c725f---tarupunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/lunarotepaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/22583016819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/4983851384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83e940e626c8415a44f8771aef1ee26/66265046078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b92389623---sidegibunaxijizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/mulupefadigodivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/74898717911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8af8092ff---83345543003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/84534735282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beed357ae6---63880144718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be74as07ut8o3pbl5thsa2mn6/nuleditasalasezanawivubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/lixosabibezibiribiselot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967df5c7a00---16774371681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810a6b6c6a1f35ad9ff4303869ae5102/topezefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/jemobokosikoxikidagaparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/lozubegataju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/xamozimibosemusafofoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=side+by+side+student+book+2+pdfPDF 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_off0001216d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 2888a8f256fe246edf1565eda36350a55f525b198453f339e4849b370cdc446d
font_01_sfnt_off00013a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A64 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 42451122fd31e557056bcd4b9aa4de0bd3980147e4cb6ac4e375749db6ccffcd
font_02_sfnt_off0001682b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1682B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1