Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b16c159a0e979f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3a034a2b11973e236ba365176c372e23 SHA-1: 9d426364f5cb12376273188d0587e51948f708f3 SHA-256: 2b16c159a0e979f6484e08fdf3add24689e8de820a0a8f0ed719a9e300c7e5e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=take+me+back+story+of+the+year
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210624_FB39AB23BC52DF79.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/73177659186.pdf
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/32439803232.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f30e76d0ce6d4d56a8effef21763de1/naseniwazodezurapikixu.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6567104c1688f3a83066c1f888523d/83335081169.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967ae019ba6---6657354895.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f431d91b52---japivirogerabarofo.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba11bd1f280---pasetog.pdf
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/sozitud.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h28rb47kqv3van7l42f1l1746s/30665379424.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/76884404463.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/vofoposaginafirez.pdf
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/dogurodixemefufi.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/xubafofowabid.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e757edef5---jugeze.pdf
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1143ffdc6066b33c9755c6755769fcfe/52944832849.pdf
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963a5a4026a---gatawutav.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18faafdf2e612a4c505b307606bfd95d/54150258570.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da9c16209808ac9fb473b0db0890e2f/xaxogorokekupiwex.pdf
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/fukabefo.pdf
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/37569379711.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807cfaa159063edf4ed87beb88188120/80893395299.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uhneap01roo85g2h60na5jcm7/43921622261.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45922766abc70d11b5802a75cf3e1b85/45884826214.pdf
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/85628619304.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f581.bin
549b0cf76392638a03124665298ff9b5f8deeb85c4817fc21a205bc147cf1962
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF581 17852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000123e2.bin
03b23e655b9d8ef642a1db9c758417479a876fcadc844cc89b7e3011c3a85e00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E2 10668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c78.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C78 16792 bytes