Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1711973bddfd59e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:56:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 65377cbf17dcb74d48f4fc13e2bf7464 SHA-1: 06488815bbe7e628a96adf0ee44e8047c13e104a SHA-256: 1711973bddfd59e8d6fc00f8248843a561c4a879a33b3a07404473f03938a5c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+game+background+gif PDF link annotation
    • https://eurochen.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/somugekizefanesusefewodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/46124997455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/8482695258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafautama.com/uploads/file/46333803084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/91363280398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/fupekapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wintechindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77352407452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/29360155253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/88405119429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3121519576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunakeszi.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/24313477875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/46906840432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju0h58si059l5kv45l4vgfcnq0/52853097465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/49054948577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131232a28982---92886164186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1706879ccb55bb8802cbd9c993bc2cd7/22277028949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/20639326719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/mebupaponuvufuxuwixipuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/feputovefesusinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9896916547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/norawisi.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_off0000c825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC825 16964 bytes
SHA-256: be1779f75ff5fdfe56be7ebc2bfe40ef5362e17ac1410a856fc8bd9eaeefce05
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 03dcffb0cdccd7529c81a969ae1e63ad42254ab3f2ab3a2c31c95d8e9c1b476c