Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 816739b6f809c86b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:29:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 16a3cf72bc822a5902ef4fa13bfc18e0 SHA-1: b2c300fe805d3728d9211401f74dff7602b17554 SHA-256: 816739b6f809c86b0afe5a8cd518a290d282885f3fb5c325f478164346a12eeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this phishing or distribution vector. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019e8a8e4ed7ce679360309429c6abb2/57475350732.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193ba4bffff4c707facdde0efc6ac8ec/mopibifusekesamira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951e5bb4a6---65707687584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b42dcb7a0---midazunukutubotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/zumakorapikapoliwepabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4f439cf7c---95856471766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/zilagipipomolewivizozeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9460fdb799b7438dc6969e5ad54731f/nuvonorubimoruneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/dumelejorideni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/66282012857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b70c435ff69---kupezonuvoxaxedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85db725c906182451ace6ffd387b1df4/42083909691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/79389259801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861a8e09e55---lusafogawubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/valul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/45333872250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/zajuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927187787c3---6287579650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202108280203399794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/nitobuvevinatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad596ca3213---xofazoruzunizitafakilewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d0cb342462d3eb2884e51008340b2e/59138814050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-jlclgg6a3e.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/16240623735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d5159d86a5c206aa4ca81142f50324/5792296585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=trizol+invitrogen+manualPDF 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_off0000d4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A5 18104 bytes
SHA-256: c8f85d92789ef2d3040b3c2d723f9fab50e9b845a981abbd07d62f384b990586
font_01_sfnt_off0001041b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C32 10472 bytes
SHA-256: b7b651d1f6f567c77a82b1b8297ed0ed30a3f3a4aa4b5ae1fa2f40c315b82b0e