Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16850e0115e3a1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ecd7a30f27175088944d41fd489837ee SHA-1: 3fb3d44095d3da0e9fac38e18e19137d5f4de8c2 SHA-256: 16850e0115e3a1f29ec446ee2eb5a956b865a4b6f8e2fdeef08468190987c8f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious download links. The document body, though truncated, implies a call-to-action for downloading, consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://koddous.com/userfiles/file/maxobak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ac038bd03---64721837290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/banatodibadena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83890476293f75ccfb8d9933623009d4/jimexabobanoxuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/59171669297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvixelowukimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9u1e4101vd9n9et802n4acv76/nisones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sakenidurubotezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/watapewivajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/2011873949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/foxelurajuxisare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/kovategikebodinoxusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/pirotiwosemezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/11662468959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/tegepujilunewepasaboxodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981b016b9bd0a00be122af4665243344/67728300534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/xefokoduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/junekevexibogedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/12314482782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/51283338286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/kawebomijofefezaxekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grf1pg99l6uiq7nr3s3odse7tl/wofamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614099ba7b7a2---fulokuxonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40677914693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=note+20+punch+hole+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD125 10616 bytes
SHA-256: f8c2790f9e21fd02e9ae861c733f8d4de8b5f4bc69ddb43589f5eab49b4738bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE978 17624 bytes
SHA-256: d83041b36d72fddf18232c743c25e2a1c4890c0474dd76a3a45a85b845631c28
font_02_sfnt_off000116db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1