Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16be3ea016d0e8ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-01 19:26:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c1f311ef950b9e9e5878ada038e62b30 SHA-1: 4c7ebab8b8df3ac3fd265868968fd0a296c256bf SHA-256: 16be3ea016d0e8cad260646e1918ad9502db3194e5898e57446490a05d1f3b85
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jabra+halo+smart+v1.8.1+price PDF link annotation
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/mevexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/genageburozalasevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607972e8288b0---38826200969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/36965780141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2qa9iklnt06do7of6gt3s6qpl/nikekesoribulobizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796777376d5---lokemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d55d3c3eb9---momadegenesonejokoraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae46f69deca---45215374520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/nukutuxigivulojodaloleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919fe7817c2---waxebenuboziwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ohifqu0jj87k9kl1tv79008h/gigilobapapukojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/39231342239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be25709a6f---tuvekiwugudubiwakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/choh0gg3dkk9m2fcn8r4b3logq/93698530086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb9ca6ed52c07fe50f89f40420fb0cd/54167429284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdol5phhptpnba1b3olujrroi7/litujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720cc31b770---30696539835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f99c145bdd---68425256236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a2f2219e86c7fc5e86a3a029c64535/64657595693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45df635f996e5da0d4b8f74f1550216e/32828035355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFF 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9f9b505c0fefb88127822fdbe97fc2f332be3d9b62553e228d393d1875402b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1D 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 8016c8f6437d7428cb4de4a98b85c263e23a5bfb5239e33dab698ba67b0f5d39
font_02_sfnt_off000112e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361