Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ca24d64698bc7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:37:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 28b70049e60fbcde2b4e03a1b1470d48 SHA-1: 6704eb3924ee48422fdb53960c0f6e486dc953a4 SHA-256: 16ca24d64698bc7f07da1be2c765e1e5db133348ecb81b113fce099611723c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://allycatering.com/userfiles/75590111064.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/73730392745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/93428265443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e226c6c87cda453c166ff1b6313977/52772027861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a0f8be0b7---2422649060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d55ba0faa---56716492652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h6dlhqln8mmdno14f10t74d16/55924812832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/9902161203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/65897953397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607320db2d3e4---tabodajagogonupidiviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ef26fb203ca0a6f5d20f00ede8fc6a/55462834354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9ecb5543c---80150235436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno-vrgorac.hr/files/37703769730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/zonupezuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104748568f40---xaranibedadetiwipeduvoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161256cf155a59---fofitigumirafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4856196c00ed40378d8a3199c3570b04/wumepozizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/fures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimumevomerabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/98206993248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/66993822942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/2536601825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/77516056547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f967731bed66d0db44979d74819de80f/31118186980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+hydrogen+gas+from+water+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_off0000f3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B2 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc840f0955c3a6732b3984cd44882e07526fb056222284634250cca098a9115
font_01_sfnt_off000121c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139E0 11088 bytes
SHA-256: aa05fa2d8cee745f401b05498592af7af1df6af0d56e797d1c84216b4784f437