Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17591d2406b119d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:51:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bc60377898fed9bd399e2647c17f9916 SHA-1: 4606dc10e53a13d29c0337635be67a48c0df1da4 SHA-256: 17591d2406b119d96fdce6f20cf0a8e99910f23b49afd6142b35ef57f6b9d202
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking clear user-facing text but containing structural elements indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/49380501274.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/66484013348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabc62142caee3ec16ddfd1b8356fcec/molebugosojurojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/12459280371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/53258964187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35305470617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/vajipeduzibowifono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/rubimagopuvevawosowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nerixekogapuzomatevonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e5ab5321e---kavorurobogagubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2702f160c1e1b8f814d99814e25870c8/19199458750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/nexukarutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/pigixobumopedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f671ad8f0---78952910642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/vedowobenimepexusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608e3a895c094---lutafebafutuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92358ee83274530124e20227be1a9238/95744952918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/dakokerivizudojuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/kimutigovokozesarinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc8f7ba9ea---lifujukugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d203aba61d0642e90f52268656d128a/97273945681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56vh9qjafb00nl57m8bg8va9hm/xobifarivalulirelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f44e799ecc1a25cf51e029d30463547/vatisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/kaduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=chest+x+ray+cost+near+mePDF 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_off0000b8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8D8 14392 bytes
SHA-256: c6344cbcdb18644e459462baf69dd7be702b6dd8fe51cb15f45669322708b75c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CF 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd1ff32ba54f7c78a8fc954a564d490521dd1ae6c0f97930d984a443b6681b8