Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ae32d523ea7725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-05-24 01:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c7b6b2c07044dc9dfe2f719d29cf5c57 SHA-1: 33b531d78dd82879ab2b51366c62b4d8a4643e55 SHA-256: 16ae32d523ea7725749ef92d68bc64a642c150f9fb2f3c46a9eb76ca4f9981bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'google play download pc windows 8', indicating a lure for users seeking software. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links points to a distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r63mglotbri8g8i8rhhlvg32u8/fenutuvodaxim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh8ju1hviho4r4lpg8rkntt19t/57871294971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083540602c15---58505027748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23eeru1vr1hfuscopndjrcgb3r/69950847238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/nitivowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875e73f4478e3f71f2bc966766e40442/87370812907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857d0a1f277---29596723461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa297d5ad2d62aa83cdea72a2521019/kajinumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bae7f79ee3a60c0713987395d8f2bb6/latufalawaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de4446c6cd---44056492489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4598812a1---juxabiresewitugikawamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad1265d6d6---sinorivofibizipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5cec70a1c---vowanizokuzutuzimuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cf57e93ff---6305822251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/gawometunovumuporosarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=magazin+google+play+download+pc+windows+8PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB81 5588 bytes
SHA-256: eebe4e113b5cfa7de51e55f55fe0c7940b16147cd5018635160c9ce03a377e9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECB 9928 bytes
SHA-256: deaa76c55118b42498a6de222f950c8d2d40efc1e415340b661e01e9287d04cb