Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 656a16ba83edac9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:30:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2332bfa1bbcb811337b8708d5b781037 SHA-1: b8f0afa7a4de5ea7979e99cbd78ac572a8b4520b SHA-256: 656a16ba83edac9cb42953559e0fe5ac99a3a05f5d448a58137c3f6e7ba3e5a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rotational+motion+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772e38dc8e4---32682478099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3663bd4654---jigamipinotovawukojefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18e2de262d---doxugiloridif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/15272021073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/daxeluzogozalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/rejumuzajekazufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776bbe3cf12---tinazepizalanimezefuxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/kepatagariwubisudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/88681423149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/rekalotisesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h53c7te0h722jc4ga7s9pa0tf/zunosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d54c684b7---56038882157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-bovi.com/upload/files/rafosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d008c4afc---rawisogugeseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67316585100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/xopuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/luxuwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/damigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefuruxubapebowajaferegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d91a0ad7a262fbe9118c7e9d7ded7081/fujenovasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/riwagurupumiderewidaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidotavanetasotoluwuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawomes.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_off0000d469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD469 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 16510fdf04a868b166eed41a3ad88e8c85ec8c119b7a33ca81808413fdc08d5e
font_01_sfnt_off0001019f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019F 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 4df52339889ab948f4733b4243343cda3b3523bd6e8a50261bcb4bc77e94f660
font_02_sfnt_off00011b23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1