Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 173a632e6cca0811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:36:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb69a23dd201a018d285cc07c2ed45c1 SHA-1: 308d61b97d4af767ef2cf8197118d20e0f4b9287 SHA-256: 173a632e6cca0811d2c83018190a6b6203e12587fcd2ef047c8916b823572fae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it+is+everywhere
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a0ac612537a7b2d0fa4609026fde2f/kifojeviluli.pdf
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/gozemaloxazuzeforuvabulej.pdf
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/kawegobetopesonotidakizi.pdf
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///4575927767.pdf
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/69361291798.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eaa08a20c---rokiximutidapozoxaz.pdf
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/pelanolilibetaberefef.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135c7bc8b5facf0e47edc561d7e8b9d5/metulowiwosedo.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7424cf1fad50386beb8a35b4eb75a5fb/zenagatuviza.pdf
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45576162402.pdf
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/77958778721.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/wejowopusupavoguxeraxekul.pdf
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/37979790366.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee0e8a6366---pixiwatuwep.pdf
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d622j153q6n81imtrmg0ut5jp1/92481271288.pdf
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/73096275813.pdf
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/20209716649.pdf
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2e2adaec6f477dd1806c1ff799bd06c/67711965767.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f41b0fc29---40854493473.pdf
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/saxeguwakefubenulij.pdf
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/52501631092.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dab34f432---rubalukupapasixavu.pdf
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/84358749320.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312b14b42652d804e7b1f65f6d1d74b9/sepeninu.pdf
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210615_090847.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_off0000e30b.bin
385fce84dfc84c2858e8699ca4dc30fa88800c19c795ab6220c1b0180dd08b95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30B 18776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011307.bin
ae458ae467181463df30e9c502b024cf7e155b78c18233ad21d96c06ed09900a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11307 9992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012962.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12962 16792 bytes