Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b16ee42aee7ef777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 12:22:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9aa92d4075b67dce4bcc5ac6c990a627 SHA-1: 17ee7765d480d1b32c40e014bb5791a664a4c39b SHA-256: b16ee42aee7ef7777b9a96d00ddf363dc333d6e963e6f2c6acf6a7174ca575d1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware delivery attempt. It employs a link farm strategy, directing users to compromised WordPress upload directories and other suspicious domains, disguised as a free PDF download. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=financial+accounting+made+simple+free+pdf+download
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b101269c70---dusiv.pdf
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/beterepexuregofijogokugu.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca7b133j28a6ojhdc8964i607/22384826903.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04e0c214914a9de3533cbbd7629ee52/44499330921.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acba770049f---54716708692.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/23001027644.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgo49bu11j4ij2dsh7l1mupank/14739199886.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073df851f6f0---53542120522.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c65e046da6e374cd3d0c005b53a13221/wejozerujipe.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae484057d---jamesarilukunezononigila.pdf
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/14673352253.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc74b649ef---56771651514.pdf
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082513193b08---vafeguxago.pdf
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8595a1344ffc37e6638752b100bd935b/38194260705.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098149da370f---mujujaner.pdf
    • http://fluidearthconcrete.com/userfiles/file/tuvuwerixusasa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec37.bin
c5f0bb7a055a7efe83f76cbf9ecc65307b334d2b21888998a0479cef839bac7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000feff.bin
6ea04ce5d9495e0c48ca2190b5a38ccd3370208eb90f9f70db57a7a17f4b457e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFF 11232 bytes