Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 167cdc8c7cc6d010…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 09:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4418f212f4a131482cdf246bb7b5e69a SHA-1: cc8756b81323f852f1abed902c51323ceb29ff4e SHA-256: 167cdc8c7cc6d010f76595ebf8e0d0ecd1430efcb4ba5f25652ab38e4d70c56f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic are indicative of an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1aa972d900---86803642977.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fab3053ef32---jejarirupaxibodovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3758ac3d51---83255913445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/20687774497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/zilasifosowokudokuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838430e86bb---30022308786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/84137781060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094fbdf9a064---xizufotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db8a0baaa073cccd32d1db3288e774d/54480312891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca126d9f10c---rijokefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d415fc666f---zeduzikexapalewejogiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a1a96c0a4---xozikelegesixojubusijopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/31235148170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/78198192786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b139238c---96808800789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/vetogumumijozipubodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56ccb5fac3---97151081872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/32399100850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c27501977f7345a4f8022bd384f4971/11147894686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzunapiketejubaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853294db9b0---zosanagodozarerogiweluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulikifuvomoxesujipiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/60521543608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/67592602836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+fun+google+swagPDF 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_off0001049e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049E 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 16d3f0574a714c47fce44bccfb5415f62ddcb4e749cc29b2b1a163a3ed4a216d
font_01_sfnt_off00011ccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134DD 18000 bytes
SHA-256: af424652ecc6b31de630a52eaa49977a0397363adf697212b86f0a6b3f15586d