Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16fc2b8b4481eb78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:58:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2e39ca9bb6ade36a042bc8785677a19d SHA-1: 798c96473f3eec5581dbce5c7c55248f1e6e4738 SHA-256: 16fc2b8b4481eb78e4935ac32ee7e819a6248395f6ef1dc26136e05156fc858b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of external links aligns with spearphishing or exploitation tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conversion+xlsx+en+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7f53865a6---menogedukalitapomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22197415498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/sotubafiralerenelivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/18211293486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/bonunugidapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofovujemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d22aee9c1f844b53b0e819b28644704/46752398549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayepnuocmia.vn/data/ckfinder/files/12488868004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/21423816869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30998655743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/36618168994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/zawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anoregmt.org.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegibeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/vuxusasesodudizijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/suzurize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/talagenigujenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornaredo.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/31456254650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/260161527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/vituvafafuwijokoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370d1035751---jixofoxulozenaxozusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerateacademy.com/file/38664133764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/89049833846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/47153235443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/pepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/leparoriwolo.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_off0000bc68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC68 16304 bytes
SHA-256: b426e0f6a4015337eb7ed4373762e878f6d8e8cb3c2aaa35ee2a8c91d75b55ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF3 10428 bytes
SHA-256: eca2546c431082c395016c7da757349c4383d17d99ee2dce085608708ab2d533