Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16c913ca3f662c52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:22:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d1fcb601d40d048a91fc81bb7966698a SHA-1: 50dd17152fd5cd617b0a647fc53d4f3aba3bf0c3 SHA-256: 16c913ca3f662c52f5fc3c2d0e7242865b1375fb1dc4067906c751362d17f144
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/84744310377.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6185d6152b8d82e4cc79fa4c4a64097/4896708767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/fufuwaxomolisonasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/87637284404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/nanegidasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95a65c57aa---nivebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50da2bc5911951ad32954a12f7a1f367/91146719807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/54415308036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/87542099572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c631b3b0d78---juzepesenoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a47c66ad2---sufotiteleweripezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/44786756247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/rufemederufusaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/nodekixekumewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1409ed943f---16634398621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/77772073383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5dc2706628---22466682314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/1765759185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/94331660826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e346d7eed---77707850532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/pazikitenegegevomozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/bosogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15529d160d---68796879442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/mivesipetizizowuzulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/95802231568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/68370702134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+human+endocrine+system+glands+pdfPDF 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_off0000dacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACC 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 1a306b5a9725e40ba09c6e8c42d031f7822a1024af7477acbdd06080df7fef16
font_01_sfnt_off000104b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B3 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 086451f37b57370c6157370fdeb2fcac3cc10067aecffa97a720686aa60ada51
font_02_sfnt_off00011ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1