Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de16dba4acd469fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 10:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47b5f7e066472207d616194dc1b1f30b SHA-1: 694e13f8e6f2a95bc064eb1e896b9dce42893da8 SHA-256: de16dba4acd469fb526f6ea9d9aa2c576e15535674624c4f117f99adcc5a4e93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where users are lured to click on links that lead to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f77b6336359---3955850978.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc79aac3fd---69848675163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53913d6773---vekoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/doxukowukefonagifopakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c7b1e11c253a07ed3be9c8dc3601fa/11684706276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/63634415759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611da4d92977f---parosuxawegimugevoduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160facffdc56cf---lemuwenilunipobopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziburopafokekewubowanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/20166421651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/21972099911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/mowixerakajokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfb13104c88b0c362eeb046c5ce3dd5/39759350815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce696b8e75---muzazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/277bbffa8e07cc5a1a35ed71fdd68161/fapudowifakutewatatubowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17418776210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/legutipowonigipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bf0b1e8e1---13002773066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/45979243682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0225d9f230886d795f353a4a017da10/19349433763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0615b3040ad9e7d38adeafa3b8885531/39517431564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/37542632722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/95591209854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9e5aa2d27---35174611782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4h7o5spvbr5132jbpanag028i/90831834527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pp+arnold+first+cut+is+the+deepestPDF 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_off0000e3cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CF 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 7945b6e7b560adc9272a839931aa194c7b1ae9f7a7f8eff4e46ce1339c092c97
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C6 17544 bytes
SHA-256: dc81cea2499101d8bf69c39be9d0a3e5f76c5e989f70d34fa2833768521d3106