Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d16a6c8d9f87d9b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:17:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf5c2506f1be819bf157420d8bb9f8e4 SHA-1: b018ba01b0f0fa54174080b190f725ab7c1d0f17 SHA-256: d16a6c8d9f87d9b51f043b670612eecf95639327e7a206c5e9a4b27281f2defe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The PDF itself does not contain readable text, but the heuristics and URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/16823121932.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8k35tc8n8a72nt0c7i3lircv6/70720506826.pdf
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/68081182492.pdf
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105062148373264.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cd2f89586---55592581331.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a4630b6ec---rukumixokajegizusiduzemid.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6667995cc1beac2385ee10a01c26fb75/96656363123.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d52c064e9---38937535900.pdf
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bedilukek.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mue6d6t87pksf795madgsjg23/6436275709.pdf
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/47277009445.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba56c1c01b28d049243c97eaef82d41/nulazige.pdf
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca22afd2cec8bd0d61d127b03a03096/wawakufekajalirulojigiwo.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/powixitox.pdf
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/93546019659.pdf
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/89839679779.pdf
    • http://d4scanada.com/clients/8/81/81a8d3ecf29e0a7d9042e8364394d873/File/221333251.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a45c2f8a4af93f98cc3405e9c991f7/2966173426.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add06bd1385---71580814765.pdf
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/zamotixebiti.pdf
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60e0c7b26ed15.pdf
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/32861098763.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b35db8079---90390377737.pdf
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/xozonasulemanuwexemukurux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=good+morning+quotes+new+2020
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000116e1.bin
3e008b94b6e4efaab901b65b89092ceca09e74d591fae59c42937c49c23f7777
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E1 17240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000143cc.bin
bfd9a5f6053bb11cc008b4abc0eb64a772259b5cb7e2315b43b3455d39f13b75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CC 10996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015cf3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CF3 16792 bytes