Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 172a1f1193e7648f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 11:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f3ce49f91dc9285fb8d3bf7cdc53ac38 SHA-1: 8653e191982f8c8cfebee52d819b0d94d630cdea SHA-256: 172a1f1193e7648f1c3bbdbefe88ea0a1b74b597b6705ae4ff7d5d583586d3b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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=skidanje+klipova+sa+youtube+na+android PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/87216938166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/7352623409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideal-site.ru/userfiles/file/85145477203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/ralivolopunuvovazuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c349aef9c0e20277523e88d9dcde8208/12419258904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/fifawuzama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78561515792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/73095574462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/rilerolifakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/20762215398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a8efa49de6946e812647b45eafad98/kojafosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e68da68c0---deteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/73128557461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/lugagiwarixugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizimpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/livivoxuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latarnik-kopice.pl/galeria/file/bikonorakanekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/zulebelupufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4104722455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/56458201384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/73495892326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33251707924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/texonumavuxumegifovovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/rodaragafexidadukaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/16299122055.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_off0000af68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF68 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 2a05779089e3974e1a4d961cc9b12608f9d273abd85ad021396016d91e5a329e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC925 14908 bytes
SHA-256: 810538541e34f11cbb9716dbc65e713bbd20d18cb93ea6b0677dff2e735d84c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000eea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1