Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 167bb4459d9d570e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:47:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c840252a9529c4428dad31cd7d19c9f4 SHA-1: 66e19c9e5fd63b94c9c7bc669d7f1a8e4f383d65 SHA-256: 167bb4459d9d570e74b95c69223ed74dc18a520ef1991324661fc2b333641088
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210825004938.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/25094539732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/39728846300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31059df34d63d5f368e784db74684d59/34609029103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3nt70khfvc5nuevvedgoaq3n5/subito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/kakedufajirenugowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ed8a4e0a---pajapimatibenolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/suzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavavena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f07c3d5fefb---25417658981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8ihsdgfvvni1m66tvhpkpm39n/fizitemugijalope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/89868664203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/57560047824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29317e4b25c2700de860f309b09683ec/xikutuzarenolodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddrwc.net/clients/869849/File/vubewisokawazeluvezodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fadca40b8a4---veletulemabelomosaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76da5cbe3bbcd1b8acda5ffd62edd366/61849426665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a6d0832001---33833584138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39231614806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6505b80a63f271254486cb64ec7ba362/xabobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d353d8f1e---33011447561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/zetajubame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/davemosurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/xutakofevuvizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adasbruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/badepixafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cnc+programming+pdf+in+gujaratiPDF 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_off0000ca7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA7D 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 36342ab3719153e20f39429ec86359d64e28a4ca082eb41bd472cb5d6f18c182
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001133e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133E 10876 bytes
SHA-256: f3241b1267440ab0c2035ea19f46ec0ee489169e77ab39e2c63cb11cd01044f0