Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16af4fe76edefe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f84c1dd2eb00da6a6148b710f07ffee1 SHA-1: 8808a45da42e0fd304a23fff95d0842393ad51dc SHA-256: a16af4fe76edefe99612172574b76ead5c74f885bac9b2c879b344a547dee2b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The PDF structure itself is a link farm, designed to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a934b9797fd2b5f58378a340b0e746/sumetob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789bda6657d---42241112020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e195a4d65---4753606249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/timinobenoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ba13f2323---3540299264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/pawinirobimejuzowaduzetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fakinedoxovixuzovikorusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d618d2fdee3b5e0e236af651449fc0ea/8714579651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb55cc5e350647af5473f555feeb7dfc/97318390705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttmfr9oo19v66at5ck4tbl4314/16730281914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071812296c4f---43302467843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab22fcae86---mumamemixejuxizazexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808b0fb52e0---32043378003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a740f46eff8---sifutadulamuvijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/52184273295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1pfog117p1gdm36gj5qn66k2o/xiginodejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de35942b42---papakiravajonosoderaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/gamisorasanemewiraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/xawoxafajawewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8990a53f7507974a192cbe1de4f54007/fudelalomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/35997846043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u418l623t5lo32184uof6svln0/50401561232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818a4760d25---pijekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+class+boundaries+statisticsPDF 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_off00010369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10369 17012 bytes
SHA-256: dac7b185e1e1772fcfde9640c2c7c52e342e9d049f7b73dab4f2ad49d82c2fb3
font_01_sfnt_off00012f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7F 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9ce14a7c75ed45d6a9673fc71a0683b4aab79e562c1633c7dc7f76b8481080
font_02_sfnt_off0001487a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1487A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1