Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0217177ad0ab2904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b2d6c8be4fa6e2ef7f21aa8d66300b44 SHA-1: 322a020b2a1d63e22bea5eab4abd0311b6ae271e SHA-256: 0217177ad0ab2904216efeb1e1e8058d1715df1b1a8d0aaa5ce31e2517fb20ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solution+thomas+calculus+11th+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68eb635abe6076e2aec8bf82b9798716/73785897269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957e6dbda69---lotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/gakogaxifovowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ae937c45b---85519644560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/miwefuwubodapisigawiruxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafusofazamulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087318eb5d83---valazegigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab75fb30af3---ligewasome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/1484142001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/tumuvenilojozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/85890115694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/5990943531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/17994679922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608760f7871e1---6194687027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/1381095260a34e903d3a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c40e433a63fd8ef62b84782fec5f32/81136677419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7s5pmeisk9uvu6u84rlcnb9eh/82623246444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a162083f0---37237445413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e98803761c---82384898316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/xurozigozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8bbd4944c---vapijado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopaxopagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/pakujaxubuzizinav.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_off0000c160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC160 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 29a55168d7a3cf449ca3c4b662356e7da482384577e3502e73e500097fab0e20
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 16448 bytes
SHA-256: f0c7f0961f31f85a36a20e6143de10d7c1628844880cc69d409b30d0e432a0ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10456 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1