Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 316ea456eff4913c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 23:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bc0d0544edc930eda0948edd4cb14906 SHA-1: e91a3302ef701ab5f4dc642ca70f2caf01c8902b SHA-256: 316ea456eff4913c832b0c68b8fe5d707e4339abffd51ee7e1a8107f85191441
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports its role as a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=five+nights+at+freddy%27s+2+free+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af4d1d9a7e---weguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7238001a1f9606d34848425cfa4dd9c2/fozinafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161083b61c2771---47922272579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be9af8e7f7---sivazizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u88ukbdi78de8vcpce2ama21i/kepepatabanijabanitemural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/17580860774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc36727899f7fdfab66004bbacf7d98/paxakotavifakapobumozasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/wosexatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a92gap2jrmh45rs4lo9ivd0a5v/vusezoxidaviresojutevuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b3ad672b5---66885700207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3acef42272---26951584839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070624eb3ea0---96041298632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebbad3c39f948ba65a69f1c6f2f71f5/lezituwisaralixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3e01c24e7bdf9de5b67978639341cb/91369532357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nipl4ahdoc9at9hkd7gbpmn8sd/33913990268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/76165775793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/gadovubodisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/om7i4o5c1kdbcn559ke3selft3/72296641038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/32973705939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/43288327358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alohasafaris.com/files/12652981925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sj4ir9qlcor2tcp7oim1fgg0cn/wevikiponalaxagopojibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105b003c23a4---38393196835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barefoot.pl/userfiles/file/66063763788.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_off0000d6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A8 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 437d066cea92bb111f5e372f8fc1206e2e1865d0b5dc993ea445cd6f527c3800
font_01_sfnt_off00010420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10420 11400 bytes
SHA-256: eb5303627453df04add79ac3b909d2f12026c6e299d0455aab9afdc0d6e9fdb6
font_02_sfnt_off00011ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1