Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f16938c9beae1119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 16:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a8e119d6000f55a70df94f760751e7f1 SHA-1: 6504dd11027a923832463e1d4f05113e652a1fdf SHA-256: f16938c9beae11196f8c0e00728e1089926c9729477aad3879b60d55efd2a58a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. Several heuristics indicate that the document is part of a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://abnig.friendship-match.com/upload/files/65187143251.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/48416006427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/51509114480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianbelieversmatrimony.com/web/christiansbelieversmatrimony/photos/ckeditor/files/mowove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f7736b3e364dfa743baaa518bf9117/75611905064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/zoliniriwoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/1272888603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/wiroripefokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rgcsmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50813759794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/gufidoredadabokoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614eb0a3c693a---89127353457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peach2560.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39292415068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd3b865ca51e9d888558515feb25b94/92016939537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4640146942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://administratieindex.nl/images/uploads/disolizogejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfk-schwimmbad.de/i/File/59202705918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/juwaramupate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robustbrakes.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/dijojemago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c3659d843df6c91a95044813e0a781/kenixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/tilolilafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/tajobufipagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c979aae5abdb15d30a17b3cca4c93543/xijaribek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615806af698b3---badipiwiwuvajinitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=is+she+going+too+farPDF 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_off000117eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13002 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 787ea3d13120a2d4f118951635bbc6c8beb4eae53a357c516bf541d335ded3ae
font_02_sfnt_off00014783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14783 19664 bytes
SHA-256: 1dc35f4acfcdcfc61d7e36f76de45cb9341b71e3d4181836d58c382950e044be