Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b160048adeebb77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:16:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 70ae62aca0b4adbdb229bdea26b3cdbd SHA-1: eaab9ebf3a47a7bb027ce139aa25172fa2c82693 SHA-256: 1b160048adeebb773b6cac199d44965c4ee6408bd2aba263e38a52cab21af47f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/41004144067.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780fb402f2e---65050765488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/25027081083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5ba2922f4---6709528214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4f0258528---zoverusumolijidovite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607302a14c701---53331771601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fd7c33d8d---83651407228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091437ca1c3d---18125847323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/88426050654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3bb8f0153---xetubox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12926bba5368cc85b98f053364416a28/zukifemefalikapezumeguzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/55603822416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02b3c1799c---nikogagugovusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/2952392702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/kapulenigufuxijekuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6747b19d31---52067782983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f557b3a7b---88285612544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/gepinunadavefovaladip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/3307067252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc4c9d817754145b14125b3a4c3d3f4/gomowinugagapikewaxumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a446a5be6d7---titujixelubetodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+a+nun+wear+on+her+headPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd125ccf819e99565c87fb346cfeed40/lubuxuwupegukasig.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011f72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F72 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 68bb7ff6c2a8dc44d5d4306cde5459feb3d7e96c1f256f3d875647cae90579d5
font_01_sfnt_off00014d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D09 10388 bytes
SHA-256: f069512a8f8ccb2d34614039318f36dc6ec0d81dd31fab5b4d850c53ba2fa411
font_02_sfnt_off00016492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16492 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 1285532d71f9d1f1e89f326f4f34e4d6693d66dffc3a3a038c0b1046bc8476f5
font_03_sfnt_off00017dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1