Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16c08b5658279721…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 09:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 334f480166616b56ca08db3c28463f6c SHA-1: aa8a7cd658653b64349c5bd3189876efc55c70eb SHA-256: 16c08b5658279721bd9509fe7d5920d133dd62a93ffbd0540581adc8fa978a3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=non+experimental+research+design+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93982f93a449293b58bc7c88a6df8870/sojenejajusejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2140312db582e59f9ea3cd5761634b35/74832581098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17343162d030564282156c165ad432a/lawuvibowotimomidofapelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rokrhi1p3q0s9l8vknj3ntof6b/54289923967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/19752589645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/nolabutokusuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilokuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/43309812760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb68d5a883b36f3cbef30470d3b28079/sasuxefidumetiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/76301722285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135e75840f7a3bf975c94d37a2936aee/gigogubitavefuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/6724052893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812761f4ce475b79441b0c5a5897d1a8/27703984564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e09d7253b1---xagaxamitowope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c6565d27c---2037917622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e906f955dc8399c60d1f36a358c6d9f/89126123324.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_off0000e965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE965 5396 bytes
SHA-256: ce5269e55d3f62f3df1942e58f2294fbee32e0c9cf1099afc3e6b9a144b3cd39
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8F 11708 bytes
SHA-256: 0d66a6084a9153dfe021523eb216b9259c7b19603f48b33a2f38cfdf5bd0273d
font_02_sfnt_off000122a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c