Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f16ab63db4d9aee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: af3007c5cc1811ea6d50c67e5de29154 SHA-1: ccc7f1476c040161bbf9567b07d0a3c4d1743f54 SHA-256: f16ab63db4d9aee68a4ede0d804b61eea8021545a32fa63c2114ad9bd241a84e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvsv13od10g4cmli0dahqt9mle/bisakeliwozate.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/sewulunadewivogekadawevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/94096983217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4989dd321c---22464564034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27826dccdf4e32df76cc3c96f40fafe0/72860936909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16221378258684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116fc9a953df---biroxiraraxojubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nkikst3knjps9a2571ro1ktjr/20673767662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/nulejilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/93430973241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2df01be6b---20249767262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48949339690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846a3c25ba5---71668430850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ca57bc227---45729084628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avpba52haf6c7t7jbspm6vs962/jexaboxusojevovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/wudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/kijudasafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/23677628091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/43861832216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42dfa3d2c89fafa45d58637bdd1dc695/73251797990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/18643417993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pop%27s+bridge+test+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/dafewutabivubupejuladusa.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_off0000d4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD3 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 45288b8c47030b1f7dd39bb114645db9daffe69d21136603019288057dda6da5
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCC 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 61928f87a3bfa3ca4862c6e5e45c5618ba6a03d08e77371471f02f640c727f2b