Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16990f940b3ab67c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 860bbed22547437efb35e0f0a63063e1 SHA-1: c4d7fb9aad1d290b43d81dbec799b82a36df801e SHA-256: 16990f940b3ab67cdf70eb5b6eb72e6086ab0a9c55c91892ec4fa29b8e36f60c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a link farm designed for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://x-software.cz/data/file/84747200831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/90505725973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/lenigodusaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/rufadekufewefivaxapidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/56079710828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef3392ea0c8db045d85e6fb004469da/49086933867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh3l0gp5713h8ao557ku65lvm6/tudesesemimobijafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/gawotowifodilesuvulawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/52818549635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608515b42892b---bovokotonopuvomozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/60476885434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dea6e6e2ae6bbe427cdf340831afb03d/tetevedazufimajuxovesagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/84759788909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de45b183cc6---77657903368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/92107822688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/80640820468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff14073fa---bikipobobagapezob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/takefatotoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uiqb0hnn2hg3ru42136n6ienub/18952072740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ca0e7f5b8---tofanugifagifasabaluvunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d41fdd9e796ff1faf53ddea0845cfad/97970908945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/vawizitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/bomijalugulusoravetasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/53534162511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f98dcdcb315857ea970c1ba3fa038a6/rifexopinofeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=physiologie+du+syst%C3%A8me+respiratoire+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_off0000ed41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED41 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 27f0df58c4a770ca87d878cefafb34276c942e335dbefe9534594dcac463575c
font_01_sfnt_off00010708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10708 19048 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6f6dc610fe8356a0535b5089a673a56fb9a8765796acfd60f224b3eb90350f
font_02_sfnt_off000136c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1