Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17095f60a53107ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 51c174c7ed25b614b8c13b65a0f197ff SHA-1: f1f3688c8cda5cdfb29f695f545e0c1f7db0f7df SHA-256: 17095f60a53107ac15d6c2c69fe5e47597bcc17fb624bdf4a2ac4542d1f047f2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, as does the SE_CALLBACK_LURE and SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE indicating social engineering tactics. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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.radio-kum.si/data/files/79962755841.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53001243581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98fafb0deadb66e6c7077b13dae20679/86861331098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xavadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61248975949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7bea7bfb1f3bc775ba0fa7807243b1e/ketewiwinikewuvemifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/lojeraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/simavanekuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80687905509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/litigiguzuzekofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/3396902670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763c0a4d5b97e3a5b9b54272f305b4ee/95191292820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adab02732c9---guterobasejuxewufovixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/82194482617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/487f0ae3bdb31e284695329046896ac9/suxujumawadesuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/noxukitedibizulifide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nepolugesajuvojematiduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/64771104887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/fepedogewetipatusesowope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afcc03b99e---vizaletimezimisabawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7382a17fc9---43240143821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/mivawijefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a6d0cc805---jogebigigixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/83869682363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+an+outlook+form+template+2010PDF 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_off00011fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD0 17844 bytes
SHA-256: cfd01167bd779be9894ab9f95d17763f81713b3d0a98fc380267d7fc6730fab8
font_01_sfnt_off00014f0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F0A 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 290b476cdfb0761b9e69025eb152763d71398148abf2f14a4b5d4ac82c2f52f6
font_02_sfnt_off0001687f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1687F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1