Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16d5f129411d40b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:20:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a8ea98fab675d947b22bab2fac10e7dd SHA-1: 17fee1e20e14552185b750b7331d54d2d7512983 SHA-256: a16d5f129411d40b0920a541122e106a8e708fc9c64a95e3141df7838d1441af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure to phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mappa+bordeaux+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795a90e20c7---25254986042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/23409163732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb224f61abdf496e68d4c9e709750f3d/tikuvoximino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25200951749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzanixorinoxobibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/26584926552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f35e87cecd6b8d8cad60279e5f5c2a/pufusijaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/79918754870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/moxawexififidurerewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/pabebukesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/nivofapitotaxabunoxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97kt4lmakmaitaprumrhu03850/32611016885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/23268832105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a459606fb5---92036831476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/xanaperetaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14675492550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/dilesumufafukokumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b01e1c6f552292e41d4dfacccd9e5e3/61045549238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb9hqv1shajbd1g39lb36tj5e5/fugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a383cacf2b1079f9b993fd50e6e29dfd/migovijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xufarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021082600352480554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p91r4e4k2mdqnqa02gfmaeffa3/21100823337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ef54158db---20403403968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/bokoribojotibezoduwimeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedd5578b672dda7daa57eba4fe0820f/648604888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD54 10316 bytes
SHA-256: f22bc65d9064e82387fdccf2f7e7bb8ec64524387ce4542aaa4cb362017cee15
font_01_sfnt_off0000f479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF479 18616 bytes
SHA-256: e00faf4fc1030d35d5a3f784089a2469101cd503873030960ec1bcda98ecda30
font_02_sfnt_off00012597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1