Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168603e7b03b0189…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a0b21875b5513fa4c54277fa556ebed6 SHA-1: f6edbdeb271346d0803e5af90fe733f3fe7950e5 SHA-256: 168603e7b03b01899ebe0bea972e81b4a0d235d45b54ea3376204c83322bd27a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/42173921406.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4267ba2dd---setogasajavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd83608fc8---3267640470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufelisefuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/68130279654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/doluvonomovavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmlrrrj73p79m9fefj69jr2cg5/37975908814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75084abe8b---nubejojolofubibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumefodoxusuzovenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/zikojamujamifizomumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65552da4b4---pewagira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpf24eta06llshdl778ptbf7jo/bawiwudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/1324076905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/25083115628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606fc35c5a3f8---jotoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sts-cct.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/59595169845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/zuduluwosazetudugebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b446ff2b0de---13248018361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/48931148405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/rufefalomanaxasamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/42444064049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/ritoroligafasukemaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/miduzexuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebubigsellers.com/userfiles/file/duxinakugusofobigevepuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120dfeae79543649a84449b66e6fdf42/gogimimimawulutoluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=minerals+pdf+bookPDF 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_off0000d940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD940 18748 bytes
SHA-256: aebf0ddaa64fedf5fb4af3b8ee54edd4159b2539a268b180aea8607d78f7769c
font_01_sfnt_off00010986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10986 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001219d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219D 10620 bytes
SHA-256: f8c0879b0e9448bc4b97598e295675b391031d9b7431ea0366877e754522bf4e