Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c016ea8e563d9ef6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 17:10:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5dda3db33db1d2cd05915ca33f3e17d1 SHA-1: acf31616b21a7664f3d3269d79dd46f6b43f7d5d SHA-256: c016ea8e563d9ef62fe4de5578c2212fd3c46f26b11cc57b76d0ca0482d172a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0e7f2686ea4ecf1bc35e147045ae3f/bikosisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716ac874106---28913215030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/kafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e7dd6ad58---fubunutebanumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898abe1b157---lunoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac80fa69310---98790288602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/zobude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874dce9d57a---geruwozivuzulokalawuxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607447dfd82ef---latavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/9732559665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00125f674---5560912871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufabefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/titeropanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95vdue4uvolgs1jtstae47rhm/44382468196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadaguputif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26d66ec4f4---rukaveligulakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fbbf5b9378a900b722e7d5c24e06d4e/pagikeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/69998572201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a331057aa0d0177ff6d0c708e05d536/nodinoxusodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26cf2a4ddb12427419da44d7d9ba9d2/28201752251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85931319162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/zafapufinumiligatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801a90da3cf---94909209150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/46608001495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+exceptional+kibble+in+arkPDF 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_off0000fa08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA08 19432 bytes
SHA-256: b7ad77cff0f0fdf068d556e6da6be476bdb2f756cf362fec18e4ef007bb1677b
font_01_sfnt_off00012bbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBE 10780 bytes
SHA-256: f804dd493dc98603cb8b5755d7357dc36ee4fa79ec487f83fc37c40675331cb8
font_02_sfnt_off0001444b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1444B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1