Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ca0db668755d67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:21:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 395246d89f4c269d6bba33145fc7a4b2 SHA-1: 3c215ac4f2aa118be1ff2baefb27b54ec764a8ed SHA-256: 16ca0db668755d67a809b1cf003a3868e39c7f08c891bbfdff346ab54056d153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, aiming to trick users into downloading a game. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363dab72a49---8053791027.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/xegafivovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/veteluvevinovozobunekemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vvpta-irvine.org/userfiles/file/sedorimemudidirevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/96869887201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_8C889059ECA60BE5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/31143040812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lejetibefojoximalutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedinaleluzosizexeruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7735ce488c881c569bf80941d8665e6/37562435603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/28737488120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/39979296206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/poxafalavaritukeweror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/52583934946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/91760400610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite/images/uploads/file/40928989897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/zabinekemegokuwikasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fulasekefodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/zotigawetegawiwavetowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dymenahealthcare.com/upload/fckeditor/file/86270139234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/pilikemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubrcup.by/files/files/30305096215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/patukitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345e30d7344---ligudedosomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesijejadosodoxisowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3872a4885---48214617281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pet+rescue+saga+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000d8d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E2 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 43a6a0ec0cf753cd58e5a3005c1dc78681b8916da487571fdf69f29f0decd737
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC9 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 3a452a1892960549b95b3dbe74a21ccb9e8e4da91288ccc43230d6715f9f796f