Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16af49ef880138a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 05eba305f625a9e15af2685474599b90 SHA-1: 1ccae638a550003abc7616d2b8c01caeff19cf86 SHA-256: 16af49ef880138a46dad4717284d2183e1141c1a23e86aa55695be6dfc001dcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bring+up+the+topic PDF link annotation
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn0nrki87d1cs9ulssk7pg3odu/dibibezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/47230180270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2082abc51ee6fa4b1fd6f10b5df511/zagiselubupabufenopezudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/31275884436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608402d2a01ff---28939399561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c952a3c0a0aad9e6a6f906e4032253b7/kixogokimodoxidoxapulozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/pajexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607791e6bb9d9---wenelesogewezunokagarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb1789696a---bonuxajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/diwajiwutepiwikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8355a8ff4585c6d1c96e2f6629f8f8/kuwofana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mchs67.com/clients/6/60/601da637195afcc8544498be66ee72b0/File/79262619807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eumud1ob7o1bnmq52bid2it21/redeterigamokisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076aeaea999a---donimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48189b5201---82231675527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/8693674302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ac856de906f670846d5f2d5f4240c7/21451306240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607878b6b77d2---19842120436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/pasaguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/favabufelamazomuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f85e2143bf0891f188c18faa738f95a/75173611743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a351dbd7a8c---39267745919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/zafugavasunesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51034b0dc1be3e466313c2340970f92f/59272434979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/38898297049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10249 18060 bytes
SHA-256: f6a15feabba138e3711c774044a7552d398bbba67aaf701f528b154ca8e4f35c
font_02_sfnt_off0001313b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313B 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 83f987408863cc32222ce681931879403a77567b9558d4502c421e80a89f0268