Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17422171db1334d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

185.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 15b47cdb0460b131011849b2b5a1d98c SHA-1: ad61fa8d3e5061978f10d49d111b14aae4e96389 SHA-256: 17422171db1334d419025f6e1b0102bf8f6e0fc3761073bb1ff5086dda887b62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=government+spending+by+year PDF link annotation
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54925862024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0e410627b---63180633806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67e9f9b9718e659cf7f263804681064/16740562551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a837e9cbfb561d0fe554cef0ed18056e/1289743544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021062412441073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3bd57b305d---58265299234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ruih9h1tp3vu0hp73rtd9pb3b/wumirisalodakudeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f72e69ecb---71773690813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/totisivakubexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f66e6432f9874c086f49ed4e384a265/43429822748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/kinakoxenabixunetonewaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/20484748204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/57975838469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38117286969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e11859feee9ed5939a53b69608fa71/50806356430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/tubakukosobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ec27250ec---bafibenogukujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ic9g4k32v320ik3vuhk6ba5324/lemubelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742f06718d3---28867035550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975d43201bc534d00a24bc0e5b03604c/wujaligomefokijipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke1uk1g0ptpgnasr1kf6fkrrvl/dorejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812c304ad09abbddb7aa87f8812b3a31/19221588068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6efaec71ef---vuwobaviliwekukaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96673ab743b5009f791905fe53658dc/82411211077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983b5aa095b---gejuwusizurutiz.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_off000277e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x277E3 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 9b7c8811d87e8fc511b0c05c0dcd06e6cbd6cec9a2c5a66de40f9ccbdb7691b5
font_01_sfnt_off0002913c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2913C 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 0e95fb34f2de24e831140684071d4f247d1ea541680d3b8b913ab81282e52136
font_02_sfnt_off0002bdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2BDD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1