Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17488b8cc118a0de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 53857f529743f027d76c1368d394a160 SHA-1: 183de094b8475504cf7ec3339f6a9c02c9c960f1 SHA-256: 17488b8cc118a0de2e572d9e733ac9b5bb3c00aeb8b6e3949b2f50c8b84a7572
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tv+bola+streaming+android PDF link annotation
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/8520923264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87785368834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51343311810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/67865036560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/79632874755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415a05881f0---68447960866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/57631520590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/22688076067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/77337763602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewaterdamagedfw.com/test/fckeditor/uploadfiles/file/luxevagefatemevagabaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/92606538908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowosomoxediwime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441e9723d83610c1c421ade02a03ecbe/zatumovikukatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/lirifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67478447081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36980615648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202109021031384751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/gubeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/jemepolovubavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajakufoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b45435840504f10ed52508910f13199/gazojasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugamunebogofumekululemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/xememunokixabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/vabovaxisigosiwebowivawaw.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_off0000e11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11F 10760 bytes
SHA-256: eef80eca4ebb307f396f04d15b6c1f5f9c6976a0544f6557e025601dd86040d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AF 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 995b1ce07bb76457ca381260aac53aa986b9f5480bce5d63656cf87eea57972a
font_02_sfnt_off0001284b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1