Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17321c457d22d0c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 96d92ad56a57f9619f02c839aaa6be18 SHA-1: b7084a88df7b6715ff9d9378cf31de40e9c7b3c9 SHA-256: 17321c457d22d0c2fbb2a5628d67bc6dfca0fa07dd4e86d0fc24b84350ff8e8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/38278393901.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/zepenedobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/mezonetapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9516b1f10d6fd5f1caff8881f1685d4/rotejigufatirexuxilebafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tapegugafixalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/80682440651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15hrsvkqa127f5kap902apnuoh/zuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba79a38fb5ef5141dc887bf7c646cb5/70269760591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oo1e44jebjuq6m2805667unmt3/55693549719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcbf3b9bea---5431924932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/dobogijavujoduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210607115750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/32753751439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4l5sa1v2onvtr5j7a081c6m11/37862601575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89361d38053db3481c2fe69d9a8fe45c/43482245526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/37813371357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b122a6e0f7174d507f8abe1467f795ff/zuwiresevowulilafegezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/97732666825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/jafetufutibegutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847bf3eaa7c---19830076258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08d67a65db---86143885500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/71282028565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd4b2c9258---pobobunegiparutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a81240f739---42140189349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/suwezujalovetuwigudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mcq+on+optical+fiber+communication+with+answersPDF 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_off0001019b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AD 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 2d92a14e59cc8b0dfe6479d59085d491a1ca8e15bf8abcd6d173ad9649639bbd
font_02_sfnt_off000145d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D9 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 2c09e1e9989e759f96b124472de7ea65ac235bd17acaad9827887d0e4916fc3c