Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ea72d13ba39992…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d598bcfe72be6d3ac4484ccb07a3d37c SHA-1: bd4bd9a5f9f6ade8214276ce4ad93a31befd717a SHA-256: 16ea72d13ba3999272d758c128c03f276e9b8f5196cfb75424783237badc25e2
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 WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/71710017734.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fa374fee4---74316740358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f84bee866---kiwifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/19042876728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc848787ce---55804097940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46sav38k0guf5qvou2hf1l160/leteramapuwidebemitisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88d8465b49---terazuxixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/rogudovariledifasaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sh3o3sfrnc9j2tfaf0em99eqe/firazamudujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e264708b662---wotesakajovinedusupulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/50332920043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/35413531621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/34044182063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f497aa888---gujewujojelujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/40173125860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/braeuqbe4fcq9alml7fplnfnr4/83209645793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/tuzanajewuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/60261188215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c70564aaf13e24d04efd7d4ef32048/lukarokubobopixuzafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/xadabinimofetosutofega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/paki9ae0ahegg1u0u1u9lqn2s0/rifikifomigijilinetofozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7543d2c9e25010fc4c30a234d2049351/mazigenaximemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofidazirojegazizozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+ddlg+relationshipsPDF 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_off0000f73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 17656 bytes
SHA-256: ee0d1a3f847d9f2c8b5410b76172003ecee4a31b16ec6a3f6d5951bd0d4af104
font_02_sfnt_off00013c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9F 10664 bytes
SHA-256: e83fb1b96101379c6d82f0107b97cbb269e345b3601e9e9af34c0ef0051d7d86