Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16b78cd3b280c368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9ef03ecf35405bd1b27cbb5b933e5085 SHA-1: d61b2f418d4cda87c82831b1321dbd4ec5763161 SHA-256: 16b78cd3b280c368c41ac387887ef1044ecb507f59b1783e85245bfaa8c1bd8b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or redirecting users. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/fibizijaxonititexexu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.com/uploads/file/mesepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/tazigoxubaxategurufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/11900429088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/temojiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148df455f98b---bibimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/2347778205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/suwovagixalotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/sititigamirutirelesejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210902174929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cb9765646---47463435109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301fb938880---67176327700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/22208741300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.creativitaecomunicazione.it/js/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99556868843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135934e59684---84845169571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/16395295918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/94454247880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613907ed00772---36221761756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/96312175976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/saxuzerifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanvietnamdinh.com/uploads/files/fuxonewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210919030657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/nokudusanadepasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundoohairstyles.com/hairstyler/images/file/vezevobewapajujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=my+time+at+portia+mobile+apkPDF 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_off0000bf98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF98 16568 bytes
SHA-256: dab0dd1f4bc91ae8b3e03b202a4538738fc9947aad4ab93b99053b3ff30fdeb5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CF 10480 bytes
SHA-256: d8b546bc0deeb1430112cf138514c3ab6dedb3f6976d149d8c8bcf61631befd9