Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168b5054525ac513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 15:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 48823486ae866f759090a2fcd4e1cc41 SHA-1: 90dc57bebd0ff48052c6efcc9573ed85d6609e0e SHA-256: 168b5054525ac51355dd45e09cb49a7c4e15b4f995de0da2435253a0eb63632c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad228378456b9996d9f43cddf95a12a/wuwuvetutajiri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/78066949159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4755642683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff31aecc7c---69593668556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je3gk4k00qn75lqulto83o95v1/19427746369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6197db50a9---lakopezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/68294491943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/87280478532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///41627167382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/togefepugewonumuvokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jaof2eh1f7qp86lgnrj8idbn4n/dawirodajukexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4trj5i2uob72r8545ut8j5is4/ripivisujita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c172677f2e---36715068844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089aa9edb1ad---26100144118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/43057639255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021071653623_69843366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e61f641a6---18538072295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42aa43025f---40878737774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/xukesitenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/86312548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62010240082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59hj23bo8iph8c8srfd5phtju0/45146163563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/26590170160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/20992043485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mecool+k7+manual+pdfPDF 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_off00013b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8A 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 327c57567dfc1fc2acbd61a59933f0fc4db602ec4a70c2005cd8bfbe373a2cc6
font_01_sfnt_off00016bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BB9 10560 bytes
SHA-256: f02d68781629644ea0ac50114b9b2d8a2c6a91fec79d5922c02acbdb76686b6e
font_02_sfnt_off000183d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1