Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 916b1c81d5f0335c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8e5f40106f3b73558adc82bbb34eb760 SHA-1: 0f5522f693c4c9f9c858fe2e60b4402fdaaadd3d SHA-256: 916b1c81d5f0335c2b1530dddbbc25dffddc8927fc2913e9c989ba1e21db9743
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host further PDF files. This indicates a link farm strategy likely designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination and evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1cdqqvm6uk16ohs777sm2c501/59208221071.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/2497674367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/lexosopedixawupolejuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8405b93f8---99970493047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b9dc74003---46252638273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a015fdd78980b7b30a351a892a087e/11934167163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/39744539619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/55118933024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/mazusuremupukewatodate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/peliloxavedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/vitelusilirukogodosabazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dagmarsvendova.cz/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/texikefoxazusizewiseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210824_8326DD48B923C45D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/49932092069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/60843574420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapusewebimirinakibogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f3fa6b7f6---jirubibibizifezerurape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/26847009772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99376595137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/19568811783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ba216b8327242be0e202f1718c1e9d/71833859688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/76541170954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/fadovurevifexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=microeconomic+theory+2+pdfPDF 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://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_off0000d466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD466 10736 bytes
SHA-256: a00089641ac0e5017a999e61d51e2aeb070aeb030d09613d9c58acf95d959a5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEE 17068 bytes
SHA-256: f9a47eec4419b80a0e81fa89315297134fba0b4b8d1af6a8780c7d1e27079216
font_02_sfnt_off00011943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11943 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1