Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16d983a230f6ea89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:01:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c3edd6d61c5e01ef646c3517431cf254 SHA-1: b6c01b1c3fa6aeb56f1744f7afacba190d3fdd11 SHA-256: 16d983a230f6ea891be1de4d7a6ae1e36bf90874c3293fc34bbbb9d11b7daf68
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to download a password-protected archive. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading a secondary payload, possibly disguised as a legitimate file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/69202746818.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14c0852b374dc302791deb1c0f6e55b/19429681498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/4173212067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/23544005479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/21001714938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/sosozokomerukebukejuverer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35b8e800e---14870081916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/56923575839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/wesisotinobumijovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffc0be1e2708831793957892eb3f8af/44832690706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/demudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/bonovetobipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/podezagiwasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60d6b417b0---gabepekajepokijikebibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/1623947770343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/89561042023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarenta.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_E36D738A839F1D74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/lotabutufimazedakuritire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minutemen-jrotc.com/clients/84940/File/63066824726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/patiweritakatafurexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3e5463d4b1b4f0a98c935334d84997/77515663604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/90837851407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/17986438435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/dasusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/36214825571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tamosikuxuzulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=manually+connect+to+wifi+windows+xpPDF 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_off0000d6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFC 17048 bytes
SHA-256: fd51aa8c1405b95170076c74b9878998bcd1c98b09db3e5f95649b8a948307ef
font_02_sfnt_off00011b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B48 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 7005a373701111cf2678e4f1670ea301e4b031ede116e7c4f4cec62edaf96bfa