Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a816f2e1d1f51eee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 01:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f42b1caad826873f9fc91dcec64ec163 SHA-1: 68a34db599e0193296b19f457829360835271cb7 SHA-256: a816f2e1d1f51eeed1e826556cc7c5f0d563eb9ef5aa2a492607e8b3d284c474
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+login+into+marriott+wifi PDF link annotation
    • https://fasaac.org/temp//files/totowuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/46779655809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/larefipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0ab3e3fe---nokizajuposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/mowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7e2231820---25600865766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5n33uclhqljhm9cgsjst8n2vo7/bilewojutarelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbfb3084606---vagidopodijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bfa8b405---letugelabalepafunagaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/rofederafelokikibawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e028091333---15716077554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4ef636819d---deveruwewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd4mos1tt0qchpdov4rtosb6q2/raguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dba504f29---34070937128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95071af86edee96031c53315346e3d98/76297141787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c7ecb0983---84723813217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070396bb3b82---neforogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca2fd96754de4a09029483953048251/80560555282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/92614866888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/76509027590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/15434283851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fa15199de---99810888425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/koned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3oqpvl4ase7n13d942o3jkgar5/17518298982.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_off0000e9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FA 10336 bytes
SHA-256: bc9ad901001301d1740c6b184139cff3807cbdc4a70e2f138b2fb3b8259b4327
font_01_sfnt_off00010137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10137 16572 bytes
SHA-256: fc2ec8ab66871de86995d4a6d5b7d3107812902b74c33556273309b71a5e64eb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1