Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16ee4c58897cfb95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 18:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9afb771827ad5729aacc5d841167a5fe SHA-1: e37a6c87de46a710b794ac6ce425f8905dcb5b46 SHA-256: 16ee4c58897cfb9579f938f9a190db4aada785f621a1b9f46456669036e513d7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious payloads. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method used to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a047b25573c---zolopabezipevorozepisawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d80219e371d---24590006535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607712b83024c---nejavesekilawize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/fewajakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071925420840---logokuloredilakafonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892bf3a6806---23986009815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0em64iq1b7g2uhn4gt86febiks/87596237033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb80nmblm7ttmb0nso6aq9u711/dobexifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2014178f0af622ee3dd2eade746e66d/bikexexazeriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6shtgrms5qk8jd7lu33q76je3/87389412356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fbbe38a02bf65cf2b3a8c4d52384a00/72159784883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda5f43726f---78613424542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/tovokodifisusifowabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/gegikuwipidajilexakawozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e5d4a4ce7deb35388856e0a1f917741/60286305268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seitonsolutions.com/ci/files/lupuwediravovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35933407302845d7ce6574cf0c22b93f/54270054982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a298341c9---90774868243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c65blmjkll9toa0ojulge80r0/68618792184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/devegexezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k4o4f67g7ejs7peuq76kjr9mp/fopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eac9a3c1c6---44330805530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/jibasode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+armored+vehicles+in+gta+5+onlinePDF 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_off0000fb4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4A 18228 bytes
SHA-256: b77fcfcb6bb1ca699d8f552bc47fdc51c1ed50bcb7f98463b5f956a24d23397c
font_01_sfnt_off00012acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ACC 11068 bytes
SHA-256: e288c013dfdb6a83fb45681b56d3843eda48ae9b66b56c431f0f12634fa725a7
font_02_sfnt_off00014450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14450 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1