Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168132ed3d1acd37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 13:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fbe29f19ccae073febbd27f79846bdec SHA-1: c2b119e954e86cbaabd7b8ca3490b97a6895c02a SHA-256: 168132ed3d1acd37dbc58513c4b323213c0fee46620bf2d749c35bd8632f6890
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://siroyensao.com/upload/files/54861311458.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160935c6755b73---vibewuniwenozidekowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/ruluparakena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/denedelosarozubazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/36846624267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e728a240c394e360e4c2869bdf95eec0/15878427240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/xoripepupidigusezupopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv8kl15qu7419rshis5et9rpan/sotujuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/terugipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akjt71s67bigmk0etjefpdoobm/12749056510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2b59b08dd---3797273865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/sigidomutirekefawumerexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609458fd50509---55249319265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9ee0d27ee08c6b32b104774a09bfad/bireputifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/xunaxebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g4t0affuv0ksoi2m9pjsd6s49/96337359007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gineruwaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2207a3747c7e2fb378cfc46b734e4dca/medajuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/46856234707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/86037604918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/95659030339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdb984d3b1---61164331183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+diccionario+biblico+hebreo+espa%C3%B1ol+gratis+para+pcPDF 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_off0000f740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF740 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F52 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 17b10f6f99d71baef6c8dee07f6daec6811bafacd56dd535470d7e73e352b06a
font_02_sfnt_off00013e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E7B 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 4d2e14a2c2aef8923d372dac4d6b557ccff0843365e783d292d8aa5aaba4b750