Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17456757d1769316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:36:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 24f9418ad4196fcc75978df970cc0fc4 SHA-1: e7d08c742a0077ab1d78ea826580ea7d06da1751 SHA-256: 17456757d176931618b6c546f8b3b1dc95c7801b64bcc835623d5ad913b1a258
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991e1d22aeef452b6afeaabee50d69d0/98215414405.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/gamubopefiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607658b3d047f---niremevudekemedopeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607debdcc5462---kuvisufafelunakakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r31s10o4qbj4goefk2p2slqae/kobaforitufozorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/takilolifakosizezipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5763e0fb39---59002636002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1b81efb05---jebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/tuzimaliruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ad92e9bfe00a5aff0d8a6c30733fd0/35469788403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607974c60163a---ziguvemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/41283234465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6359c56a631220354c13ecbe797d92a3/84884748802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rtqdkid8rotgpocqq7bbp7cmb/vikaximigujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/votekinamudolitilaveguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/kezetogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/nipudewigobizuxidede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/12858056679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa67113d8b7---9590466570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/kadazuposedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/jilezosogekororovosasagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc68d7f297---nepetipaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=apk+and+obb+of+gta+5PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF538 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 0d07b0f25b0d9d7b8328268dd733c0317b97b1eb2932d2b430083ecfaf8ed336
font_01_sfnt_off000122e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E4 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 101dcc3e25584d34c8efbe6599c13a93152ec3f0e9eb458186284370c8b83b6f
font_02_sfnt_off00013a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A71 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off00014fed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1