Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 816418f8d283e528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4227e7132ea2cbf2b1ca9c9a1eb761b7 SHA-1: ed6579151049de3b7bc9b83ee88fb86fcd4cbb01 SHA-256: 816418f8d283e528b20e64a910a171603402a89b40022b5d2d3e12db9521ab6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially malicious domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da4774121a---2791691231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/44636172723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsmelt.com/upload/files/venugejovotawidatigegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com/data/editorfile/16706874473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/23378292949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/kanajaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qcfloor.com/userfiles/file/47657563586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/32415719665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiisushi.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/xakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powerliteaac.com/userfiles/file/84556887381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/depimalezudemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsebolivia.org/userfiles/file/26613723940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8ae0c8884---fazopapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobadesodavulogelemegomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxity.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapemagapodilufexefojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5491777665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210912143553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2228b07002b80848bd61a5eaffe9b16e/dufurusakebakunujivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivuxarewebutirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/rovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://80tner.friend-match.com/upload/files/rotederatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/pikujakomoxafekotamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/31871300425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319d9f4ed80---16395175786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/78537678272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613509d50a474---46733431541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=let%27s+just+be+friends+full+movie+online+freePDF 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_off0000bf28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF28 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 1f6b31e231764421a43121ee54e6b57d5a4dc4f087087d3012db3e74ebe2c9cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BF 10780 bytes
SHA-256: e46717915f7b8b475942249a2d15bd93ecc5e67a87f4de5b5cd9154a376d9efb
font_02_sfnt_off00010296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10296 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1