Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 172868a4055a9be5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:19:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5eea4b7e3a99d46b14ed581e2359d690 SHA-1: a3be6186013af55cccf68b0ce73db4af71bb5769 SHA-256: 172868a4055a9be5e04b7de5be7c31c75d03d691560fe0531e6f6915ba5404ad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests it may be used to further obfuscate the malicious links or initiate a download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+rooting+an+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613067c34f4ad---13837768600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/74363469975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42837291582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/57642912853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/70140714996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_3FCA283256B40792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/lafixabijapukojapumetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37374262201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/86337707064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210906020029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/barewafiroguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54653610298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/30510856130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/902356751613d5b7a6d4e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9f3162a8278338542081d756c232d8/pofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/31751042947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/92687959747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/japitefino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429d506afa3---2208079652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b68360590c3d15718733682bd4b8da4/fuwefomizijotewewere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systempro.kr/userData/board/file/nawevuwejipagefofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/d3ce09db0841688dab4134fda9e03141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/rodonifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uetty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pukogalusoxezaz.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_off0000f4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DC 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 4c14598bd76b639fc7fec99176824ddd95ef1d14ed63b4fc731d1bee5b74315b
font_01_sfnt_off00012215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12215 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 6652fa81b5a7c078b66526c68f00945094a9a35254356d96ffe51c1dfccab668
font_02_sfnt_off00013a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1