Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e17c52e475978ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 051dfcaf3c5c0f4537d41827180dbaad SHA-1: 0981332239033e561f24fc24cd8082d073aa007c SHA-256: 0e17c52e475978ac81bd47f36e4e5eef05fe9ebb11ada7989e7b4dabcd5eadde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. These links are likely used to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2181d7d3---zaloxafid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/nezuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc04889dad---54567876462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021070622054938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28063776884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/94934019390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a6b276c15b50246611cab61397e996/25038053531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/duzupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/56884872748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90g7t6ekfemse92i78th22qkni/tatironevanulidilibowadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d9dce6b79---befatixavubazoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870d3e741b5---75625094389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12468234584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150303_021151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e6d1c47f0b49152730b9b7a21e4d47/lupiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161263591107bf---62540514467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/17155505181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sabc0m64bbkm4g4kfvgpfn12r5/sokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b86dea35c8f338911ad5e9355ba674a/jokurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da0e2048e4---xazavefetexigivoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01c80e5fdb---gunededugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/51915013753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fcab9aef210d609e1d24a045fbde70a/xipusezopepisafigevune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=apa+citation+and+referencing+pdfPDF 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_off0000db77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB77 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 231ccd5ad11dde74e18590fa346ba9cf66a4c52b022fd28b45110f2bcedf67ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000f386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF386 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 06f60b0e11fb7f7cd8544cd106d9edfc555e7e6ed62289ec2d75e2984e3495bb
font_02_sfnt_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1