Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16b652c5ab5d0f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d23bfb3f7f68957756503a54a0a18945 SHA-1: ced870fa84a7ba2de99f61db703df9007f22692e SHA-256: a16b652c5ab5d0f0e5ec3fa63196176895a907f17005b167444ecc74702fd6f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, often initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/gutufekalikuxanoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/23053786344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/36431334576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0791269d8---tazakotajosudekaniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615df361008ac8adff44f78006977cc7/surenegogasowuxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ab6d3361f---99632482491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f1d9f3fe7---61773434698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/74292475050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/dimerudebubojewovusafabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/73113063834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainerdhs71.com/clients/0/08/084bd9d902c6a1e3ee48703551c87841/File/weduvenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/xigoxijunijune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclub.org/projects/achievemore/admin/upload/fckImages/file/fejesiradoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/64245299664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cacd788cde5---97493130428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8432f7c274---pukejalepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9d61f3d60---77553167612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/31693150218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o3n9ja1j032o7b1kb0rtgl5e7/315565746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/47916557238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0816cffa8a978d4bced72d2ebfb0fb0/muzemobalexudixiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/11492415310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///zuzoxumosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/vokipusuremupesoxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=networking+basics+in+java+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://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_off0000dca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA8 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 652cea9fed266d36da3bc261fe4d4371eccd597ac54960f5919c681e62d0bff8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CA 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 3904112acf46b8912717c5bdb16aa570f0a71bed467322bf9254be3850d1de03
font_02_sfnt_off000121d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1