Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16d37c845ee5e91a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4dadda94ceaaedb147e48d883a6889e3 SHA-1: 73f29a5cfbd6f8791edb62fbf05da419d592877a SHA-256: 16d37c845ee5e91a9f95ece67c002a01e7970a072f69dd0aef489515f58452fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=feature+article+topics PDF link annotation
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072176d8d00b---76588056841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a16337ec69ba78fa45dba972187990c/dizibofegogejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62145e967a---52647535510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a52839b83---67046500353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/12205857057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbfe23c361f782cd39f1d93beb74ab4f/64499991454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/57973462264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607260683ad9c---xafameret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609542abd3159---xovesuredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16476ff88d1db5ee539e9391a427587/9319719202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060999813ad73e413bc5a4ec75c76af4/mirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f3d423e69---pazivixutaribadaxiwaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6a8f51720---87609830377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/84859727721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/kediwafebinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/fitijazupilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d90595b38c82224606dc31b01150e73d/kijetibiwugawojewipulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/99385456101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3eebe2b5d62d45d1ab41a37022a81e3/maromasorugozukuresema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/57699935261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efe67bc232---mapikazubolikiwowejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/16195039990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8470b3544---kadiworarezonapimawinebe.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_off00016f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F57 10340 bytes
SHA-256: bcda05a1e9b5a081ae1069d8e7d00bc387d30a7a260f993f59242559facb03d6
font_01_sfnt_off000186c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186C7 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 86a7afdf6d0d70e674df2cf8309fdc3a30d9096408eca969892296c1246ce0a6
font_02_sfnt_off0001b1dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B1DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1