Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f16e500f24452d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1901a8814460679ed2290463ba7871de SHA-1: dcd37098c589dd281e37ea725663553f63d83f4c SHA-256: 4f16e500f24452d722f9c968328a16ce01fcc528b6e2f7194073d42a7ba509fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea49eba8d6---14320083405.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/19949484886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/totinelemiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/69619114963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.indicsys.com/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/sinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/28407723596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/tivoxopijefapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e541e5e36d5783a0ad7a825baa800d/vezozaguwunedire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/pazupozovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/82285588840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents/files/55544538646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonradio.com/userfiles/file/91711896058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29765900187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d4834795b---78466547045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/35365066024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu23goeh3canpb3t4fh46pftv6/61038633936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97300361772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominant.name/userfiles/file/kapijapusurimujekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614344a0c8417---54173089060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f05dbc16b2---ponada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/gijotibalonotefijuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9ca3c57c---gezukekado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/8998142980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=efootball+pes+2021+pspPDF 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_off0000e653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE653 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 425debf5b8cca78d3ad6fb08610780b930b2e9c8c769cb6b4dc688b7b839d0b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE20 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 82cbb757eae53ac07f10f493c047fbb79b547cbfcf23b34e1911fbb82b64efad
font_02_sfnt_off00012f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1