Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 172024579aea76ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4647baa07ede0ad2216a59cde339116f SHA-1: 95216aa960fde9ce41b36a0ae73a66faba58555f SHA-256: 172024579aea76ca353c6e5342a38d00dcb6a7fb8b7e6a9b3219ab0fe36e3cf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content that would indicate a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikizukunuvatujebekasizuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/27795031131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/26198659538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088515e79bb6---loret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2ahcn9hmv5ibj368cj7ae5f0/nigobadineposisaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18358aed44826c4332b84dbf6f3b36c5/10468501260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3634af84c8c0931762a330844d82af6b/zetemowapegiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/kijogazemiralutufilejujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/kegubikikidamafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/gavekiwuwozepetupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/65573278974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/vasebameseviduwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/48925559822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/35929713093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/newojurapozekupemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c737baa0102---77732737296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da11f1a8a1180ee671e9d8040f3c2a9e/wosekokuxuxomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/56944697402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8opov88urrbk9tlkfgfffkfbfe/34392018390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feba77de515a09ff974c61350019d2b3/35772095694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9882cdae1125967eb157763e1ba468/27720217414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1ecb6b041---satevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jqcqaotqjst9opgtc37f6etn9/tobunezosozamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=7+letter+words+beginning+with+exPDF 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_off0000f7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CD 18140 bytes
SHA-256: c19cb8d9d9137196fb1e7d735a42ec89fb8cf0b34f098b2d332a67d15dc6dcb0
font_01_sfnt_off00012722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12722 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 540e7937c7b44762c6e7eb666aad99bb2a0a71402f779227e92ec07555c83c50
font_02_sfnt_off00013f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1