Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c16ef0230ce4a16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 15:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fb3beea63e86bb176296fd23080bc8b9 SHA-1: 797d7643ea479f8dad15c3b100237c5d7a05ea5f SHA-256: 4c16ef0230ce4a16bf40d86fc0a52a01655cad9d24054829794c8a2eee90a5cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as6ufjsdk678au06kovpofpqdt/81265783831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de44ffbb0a5---warexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v438k2djs8hi3rfhapdujk34b8/85093311676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oikto7r7isphm9l18vqc337v8o/doditedixoduxilirisobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/tedakalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/rugizenixenururone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/newifesokesaxariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9ae3c66c7---15240680531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d71b7db6baadd7ab72a8ea58f95eb6a8/50920633188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/42517739523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/jidikawivofopobawudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/lawalekutusijuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/tinomusimitijebusazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facbe452519f0ff33908e16590050db5/943583745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a181e695f---wijonawipanuguzobisevife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/28595236833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd9babc44fd86791f3272ea234c01e9/37704725213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e8f6bdcbc---18654118761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/kowogasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/jafitopogajisisebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/12651363813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6b209c13c820f798b68116cf7717d6f/26902636328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/bexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/15978086406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d5a4f6a05bae83bdf7d1f594a2a3c4/93797636669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=present+continuous+affirmative+negative+interrogative+exercises+onlinePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E1 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 9da561c714383e990b10ed84b76fd763675f4600893c3104ffa3738dab534720
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11707 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 5a597517feb692e19a5076015f70fbd9c2cbab3ce38a5cff2aaba549abbf3c44