Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ec366756f58b9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-09 13:41:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9d005a8947cb532720ac22b835b6e18d SHA-1: 434b498e8f6fcf836248dd1102ed4a6af155751d SHA-256: 16ec366756f58b9ea742724845bd71fca46287cb594296138ca8b6cd50eaaf28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/19026130811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/61217048551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/70468845832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/100447074587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297cdb607911eaffac7d1f4dc88dc608/51445652440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/81292488361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/1324076905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/4955897780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/bagifoxejawibodeleforikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/zubagefosajelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16263989598638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/barodigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewebajuselebibamilimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd9edc369c---67401801479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/giwetujavupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd2f6d5df54a7b3772ea059091ae2ce/68922038761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa31abed6b---vetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagnesreunion.com/clients/e/ed/ed16748122b3ff8ec97113314e0446c4/File/kizixemalagamesubukiwazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0941ea882a---37483362220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epas192bi1q645ql3sgqbjjqk7/megasujiwijisuxiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/jazudowiletefetelatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/8468640779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf89586a08331b35eb02cb262a28b0a/fofowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/momesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=attaullah+khan+songs+listPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/pijuguxukutok.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_off0000fd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD80 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc7a90e71dfadffbaa5ebcf4dc50ea0f3fce501f477a3dcc43805db3e76f634
font_01_sfnt_off000114ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BA 18140 bytes
SHA-256: e8ad02e5da7cdcdfbdc1e5dd7930ac4b9a60ed51d8d413e9af7cd22571b14bee
font_02_sfnt_off00014235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14235 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1