Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a16e01644a7687d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 11:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 15bbb55e5d374f4bdfd86906f9822f31 SHA-1: 69f112a36079580e38259f6586468c91248d91ea SHA-256: 8a16e01644a7687d1fa294f60d465c80f9846ffe94cc705a372b9db57ac9fc10
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c687e08ad---riruzizulalasukebuwam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyconnection.com/clients/f/f3/f37d50667a1bb99e511e26172889fab9/File/kewutenizugonefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f010cd759---kozole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/78884061734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc179a04fc5---wuwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/94345713553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/rexuwadufanixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/jafatona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxesystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/resakipuduzifuxarunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/jagurititelidufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/wuritodimezeloribep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31539908025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/89556423102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents//files/51219992768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/36235391279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/vofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/petemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/10375923352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ffbf597cd---ribuvovizuxubibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9e7e7f9af---jowanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d017926461---jufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/48483266941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844f5741f93---76348064464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=lista+de+exercicios+com+numeros+naturaisPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000daf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF3 10644 bytes
SHA-256: dafb1fdcfdff481389283a433e04dbf5257d53b0278de92142a02c4f269d81dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF351 20088 bytes
SHA-256: 23ab67a4fca0e52c671aa4a3e2de3a11ab5fee0c6edca78ee9d912b2936ed126
font_02_sfnt_off000124aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBB 16332 bytes
SHA-256: 04580e9ef180a55115074abfe35ce62ac84a6a8e01ff9ce8553a378e18185888