Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f16f8bbcede6f218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 07:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 404f0ed9f16b7c6f81ae857997de2a73 SHA-1: 4976ad09d45544d4566024f1534b9065baa08165 SHA-256: f16f8bbcede6f2182d9bdcad3dc9a925a7fb0111304d347bf6cccfa25e08f9f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and a visual download button, indicating a social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717db8d81caad42d665cf83c47fdbc2c/68828938694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/nalixogifudaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7413cc1cfc---12412094675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1c0e3276a---bowatilofakutizufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafogebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210622235020_557618776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/xawasevusawugexugake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8ovlq5jmhsg21vo18v88gtl0f/8965247635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/16333152462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/35534136381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a3eb226b5---fevaruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/lamadumagakunigomala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi351frtkt8j50h2adhgptr3j7/dudefukegezoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/tapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht2gc56o2f9eor88bqi5l8ijk1/32270118804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82b46f15dd0a3512bf246c6bfe7fe67c/wasonibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/97469966962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/78770845713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjclsfmer0mk6vj2scdhsner5j/33895313799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/kowixumiropiponitovurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/fajamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/18424655448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotitopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/86274194606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mario+64+for+pc+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B7 16128 bytes
SHA-256: e086d997b6ee3c3fe48f8fdf49e8854b9e9bef9c53b5c2c5f26bba4f2b277426
font_02_sfnt_off00011811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11811 17916 bytes
SHA-256: d93950e309f0696911fe319964c643a071d6939e83e7c358e880d8edace56a88
font_03_sfnt_off0001467f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1467F 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 713886aefbd0fa105a97e98cac37f7bc3e67100a239bfc97b7e435db8a7f46e7