Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d16046e2e1ec76d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:08:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 04e6f374386fa53ca6e04d02d21b476e SHA-1: 985a9289fb804d8b9552078c05cc86941beaa7c2 SHA-256: d16046e2e1ec76d7ea310b7bccd88a1ef292f2e52b67c15d5a1509c4d3ed2817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a link farm attack.

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mary+kom+full+movie+download+480p PDF link annotation
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfhibrft219ije3l9uh9flh67v/kisajuderoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sdlnf3frj29hqus5lcqpblc89/naxegapagomavipotawidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/kajexoketetosifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/dasunisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ffc0d6a19db53e813dc9a885cba9b4/16282846245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b14404729f9b8aee1a4a6eea3a6f71/94726329129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babdaed8923---12247081591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11a98817b2---66862570235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608794b41cb40---78915440827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/16503612877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6159073662e3b073fc333464e7095e5c/towevarevumisagaxutonediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2abad0c9cf---mudafobugibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f9ba13dad---66233032554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/300554557220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4a5d6298a649c3c69a9942bbb55d89/90678772106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3d6cdeb52fba25f9182103abd24fac/31169505545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51766fc4b4cf3b27584ee78d69774161/31869447458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ii0cv9e7hn78u5gjuo56thavee/renubomipijotikorosixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84246803cf937a31d47bbdf6c4d36ab0/70012699846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fbe7dfce2d8e4ac3fb14c699f770c1/81477895818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2035ac4c7e---wagokipuxevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/41922355681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c33a0dce9a2fcdf0bce851f73f07452/selimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centurionim.com/userfile/batiment/file/90029434162.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_off0000ed25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10537 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 02f90f23fd58968c9dcbbc5b9f42de0e4ad669a2415796a2db90e0be7f0fc204
font_02_sfnt_off00013246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13246 11252 bytes
SHA-256: e3b4dcf764693f077269f7db4462da96059adc4d0a70bad90c7fa66bb35b0ba8