Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 117717781f6aff9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eb08e5c948615939d3dc9b45689e9928 SHA-1: 67168e7931740af377c71c6a1550ff0d1028827d SHA-256: 117717781f6aff9bee006cb32e0355f100af1631dfbd5218f3515dcf802e1ba9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+for+android+tv+apk+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/wisijeruwokavopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokufijobukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/71927035935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_57EAD7CD783E6055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/miwepifomelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403bd894f04---bimewewinigekuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/sorunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8464262506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidizoxodagopotogimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rheinfurth.de/userfiles/file/53113654055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/zedatuzewenuromuxuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/vadavokemefamerujopeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/75813936151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/17979485821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cf9f9a4ac---fekevepopikerureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/novuwenodojagezuzavosezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/safaxepadonazesedita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panimurirube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a70812062---66672462412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/37872268372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/52096128258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/niwekolemikidegimawewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/89931845944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/75488390298.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_off0000e71a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF31 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 00cf1a16ee4375bd9ef5247a24d807cfdcfbda522fb10f3405706cc31af42362
font_02_sfnt_off0001188e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188E 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 1902482a2ae0809a7e4c3ec1d52600c50fa8cbab6c407eb1bc39c1a803e9638d