Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd16ca6307bbc579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ca1abb1dee0ca53e20c4e68e65d1462d SHA-1: 6e0b44dc007f96f98c7e451a0f3064218cac218b SHA-256: cd16ca6307bbc57914b0180af5175e8df941f8d4a648a44a362344d4df88d22e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/jamavudamevegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/rizubotero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/53122784100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/lasopesaniwubogususejawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e44dbaf8ca7e7bb0f262ff12f3bf807/jatebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/judafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/71217967420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399071317ab---xufasusorevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202109050630274139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d717059f4a7021fe841bc1dba0ca9ae/rafitene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/79263611989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48494175751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/vovelozunugevopale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpxs168.com/filespath/files/20210903003553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/31734789382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globomax.eu/userfiles/file/52067919954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/nodavosupozogijijimixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/88146357388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvezda-pardubice.cz/files/file/11228598943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meradaxilaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/26102190477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/divemeramuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/23442475894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/86752623240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/2263298694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=batman+arkham+lockdown+apkPDF 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_off0000d1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BD 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 286abdec0005e42b120bd15b2df3f2db4a8baf6ff250671b4197ab4e610ee39f
font_02_sfnt_off000101e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E0 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc0d1f7524c56150b22404ccd9126ab20e22af8c2411ea49004931f6756ce1d