Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16f3b18f40ff626…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 85722b988593dca29c20796340ca7464 SHA-1: 5e35020bf3ac1991e61d92742c6edfdd6c9eb82b SHA-256: a16f3b18f40ff626e15eb800e3991c00e32d7b35543c3e13e2158948b5e56aae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point to a common tactic of luring users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fbc54b40b---miguvilekakotax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nagyberki.hu/sites/default/files/fck_uploads/file/mofisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/mikasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolavotejusovovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/rigajebejiravuborobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///komefitebasati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/55566469438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/43355273618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/30216508159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/51978548241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/9363025893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/4937125594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75b28a3f9b---73311578045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f8674432---korokesunelupekuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qecfttharifef73otv8j2qs865/xezezufuribenopebelofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/41306978741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/8930838459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinabomi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/51156058869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/ridepegemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079389941eba---66243546450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612389debd263---mopeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859f6fee6e1---juxuruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/59460196259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/zakexorejovekefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609516caee170---77494275179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=thunnus+alalunga+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_off0000e355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE355 10296 bytes
SHA-256: afe33f1e4a3ecf8a90f4e4b6b6c5e3deafced61f79461d1cfcd6141e7774cdd2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001123c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123C 18624 bytes
SHA-256: fb7212026b7654d8155157c7737fe43e512f44d95e8057655380477e61d584ed