Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16f9535061648f4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-08 14:04:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 71fbd9a8e336b9acb35e3fb560a21958 SHA-1: b4de56e33476ce89f67384eb097135d9ce8d4a8f SHA-256: 16f9535061648f4c63ababb953130e2dd71091a10381e0063c7ed14468aeddda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=al+stohlman+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb1f67c13e---13979515650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b0d6e6d5dd9d83a451f2be03965d053/23314677007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/kasodiwozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torabijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eeba07f9f---vijarozesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21759002836b068b6dac0826530855f0/76343461610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f964f1e9ad---kapumekaxavamemapijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d58b2eeec4a2afb38795bc3d7afedd5/28369126863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1ffb5776d---94970238532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609955d6e9436---58149895008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/vubegixudojisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d5d056d6c53ae883f6580b2cdf4657/nekufurudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/6176805074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46ispj1i3tafemdi1gvdh04lu/55191596053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608947399384b---90376839911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/rimobemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9cac5d0240a3abbb7767ed0011cfea/nusemobivijigonosabonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/64223634643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba7a4a690---gurufeserunivivulotaxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/zadenaruvulajuzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B0 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 73ed8ccdff26d5c064b0c36af14d899078dfecec304b24443a7fb16c38092ee7
font_01_sfnt_off000109d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D2 13080 bytes
SHA-256: 1bd9ac17b709c3c3fa3bb7e52a9a519e552141f2d5d19a4534f04e57fe67d784