Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16c8f12c9d246a30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4b63327cfa3973e9069c9d4a9c7cd80a SHA-1: ffab5ef9ddd9ff30f6c90d6f38c78b0b5d0d3e6f SHA-256: 16c8f12c9d246a30de072a81d952f103e195be4afd06c040aeb746a90254a237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to websites hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns align with common tactics for distributing malicious payloads or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+games+in+play+store PDF link annotation
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/86355085731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/35861352909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sma9ouob26dga8broiuufvg30q/redapoxotazotifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/63149900567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trisyscom.com/userfiles/file/32520956919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///xubijewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0519e40cd---77285241865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88395548040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrse0hot9gfvb64mgjjs7hfu18/30034257176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th9doo2gl39rmoo6fper2o5h52/vadobasosavuxaxapomobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d60855a2c5cc4adb1ba38e4cc4f270/11772617789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klemanpince.hu/files/file/gegozokasozezazudivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/47685601827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3ef2e3e0c---11851011562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/42044735963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/vawezoxudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/51057047784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/5675031730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairfibers24.com/upload/file/23662064169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/70711344138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/faxepajavojadowaminef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/24367916066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/fafajobijovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patevigubatozim.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_off0000e0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B7 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 47f023eac2a9e875a2d3395ddaf0e562e6dfd80b9db583c68303ef069c9c330a
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BA 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 137ec20dbbdbd2a06afd723e7fd6f5f0b89385d5c8cf22f78e3cea4b3827be3e