Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16e825d82cbd24d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e0b32ffbe7913420561d7dbf0584ec72 SHA-1: f7fb88d4fa4e81dfc13415306f5c90bb9bf948ab SHA-256: 16e825d82cbd24d9139ba16625e560e5ab03f40da7838cc57bdcc2e6385cf159
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a large number of potentially malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blowing+a+cake PDF link annotation
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/zotogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/63443069570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2fc082068ec513f7fc4297870e7abe/6640144056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3226a512e8154cd8854343f6766b4600/79234190513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7137e3543c02dbff4bb9a5b7f2461f01/vaguledazirinubexono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5ba65d8e0---10137070508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gomaihoa.net/upload/files/96153049201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/89129199203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca225ecd34---fipupirogibatofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d370dba27e3c7c8a409a429cd63d7c11/nofiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5734ae0e80374ad0ed43715505940512/muwixaxamubuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cafe16daf6---75271361933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/mizojogulovitifoxojatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/74210659876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941ceb4175b---lobuzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c89900bff8---36347279548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b461c9e8a---95746069111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/wareravunoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f964a4849f91a14685f132eca912cd07/jefikefigopuzugupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/76873741970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968880389a0---golonenelolawefuwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11mfglpho91detp1b08dh05ui5/99811852177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfu9han249sevqcaal6q39v6hh/fejedezigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072964e6a235---73592222060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/manibejejixodowanugarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7547c4b2568281dd06ef723b92a2d5c/jekojojukefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/zikij.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_off0000e4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F1 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 6015e36ad240634c623e96dde7dc38dd67ce5e805c3c785cd14ad53f7b6a2625
font_01_sfnt_off000111bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D6 10268 bytes
SHA-256: a45d7cec73cdb0a90ac597e21186608189cc2696cfb208616b1282a9fee45431