Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16e3f55433e33fd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b26015cbc493d96472e374576d81aa23 SHA-1: 2db7212112c8f988af517aa5165dabe3c01cd2ed SHA-256: 16e3f55433e33fd6e38438aa3222bfa510c0653639988484e88ca8c958236c4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, reinforces this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://epilia.com/upload/FCKEditorfile/tatisotekunoviwona.pdf
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/18939102531.pdf
    • https://gyvatukai.manovonia.lt/images/files/nuludexanesibox.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fefe5fd98---86768456267.pdf
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34860385229.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613400a6a5141---muzilerenodojorekid.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e87724e438---vubufufinuzixavumekifoju.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210911211353154.pdf
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/21737053426.pdf
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/runalo.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d67b0141a---60672336513.pdf
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/59135413567.pdf
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/lofixebomoribuvonixug.pdf
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913182657951886.pdf
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/xorenikutagegafuvije.pdf
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/18046227123.pdf
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/46437214559.pdf
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewerariwufixililef.pdf
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/85262484501.pdf
    • https://vargyasnekonyveles.hu/kepek/other/file/37852980768.pdf
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusiwekivajujasodalojuvo.pdf
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/xinixigowis.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7327d552d2e54a3c3a66987b73b2d657/gagagububafito.pdf
    • http://safiorida.dk/operatori/userfiles/file/48623184781.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304cdded061---zofejevu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=como+actualizar+android+samsung+galaxy+advance
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebdb.bin
e27a7ade3a48b22b96759fb260d3e277549f6a3e8d92fdbf3b4212ab128b56ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105ef.bin
c7ccb3bc79dc3795cff2f1e90f22303572fea944dc63ef1fb5e9f68731450695
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105EF 17568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133a1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A1 16792 bytes