Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 172306ab146016ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7efdc0dff172358249eac5d34fba8fbe SHA-1: fecae89ab1a2bfe215eb43111e9b1f4178955db0 SHA-256: 172306ab146016ed3bd2ff1e7515e65090c1afedeea3c5ce756996c955c5b04f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious link-farming attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+offline+games+for+android+2020+free
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1631505739867690287.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613011a68a09e---34443997593.pdf
    • https://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/19143481140.pdf
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/86466490631.pdf
    • http://drsrkbedcollege.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47665060470.pdf
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viputaxetepanezugivavu.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/lejetegudafan.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c62197533fca4bed2d99cfffecf8446/pakenedeta.pdf
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebonabuxagaravikalazi.pdf
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/pagemoj.pdf
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/gorilanojutuxusiwudorev.pdf
    • http://spec-so.ru/sites/default/files/file/fugibiwulufizuzikelubabu.pdf
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/31943163488.pdf
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/6266752942.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d20deeaf1---mipunizoboxepev.pdf
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/kujetaroxibuj.pdf
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/81959338796.pdf
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa/files/57524585057.pdf
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/32201900427.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/lunolotuwimevujomejum.pdf
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/kitirogajerixemesezububar.pdf
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_756AB505E8142609.pdf
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/3806266275.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee9e.bin
65ef184c72da12c9b99f804090e1824c90f7c1724ececc4fb17b408cbf1a44d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9E 10992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010803.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10803 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012015.bin
5f77916a3485b7e0f3da14988937565304480fdb9eee11a6f8dfacf8666fa3e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12015 16696 bytes