Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17746f50430630cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 23:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1c2c7ba2087a04abcc5291cdeef16fd2 SHA-1: 8270d284f56d41b0460352aad78bba825bf941c9 SHA-256: 17746f50430630cba867fdb60b20538e9af2902db9bd0f6fef560b2a9a3fe72e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, while appearing to be about polygon calculations, is likely a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+calcular+el+area+y+perimetro+de+un+poligono+regular PDF link annotation
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji2ma7juckcpgof7e67t85g0lq/26578149145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foev0vipfku2d8l2qh3jl1prg7/wilanarewodorebuwidaxuted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210604162718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/95441957075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba39c7ff23---31673069481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f3fe49027e1ae54d0753df26d8091cf/valizunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf17c8b6a4---tadotulerujajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0e432ba06---28935491244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file/%5C/budupivozelifuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944db782529---suvuguweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9b5ac8d23---zariroxobede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a374aa78c6d---71859631027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cdsjhjfmk1308vgqfmops1o2d/biwisuwevuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/92586496721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/24422847927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD446 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 36d9f69379156109dd63a191628118ebdb2c8bfc5dfda85d252cfaca03f62cc6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F5 11112 bytes
SHA-256: d12906433588fb0a80c636c93fd80e34d3fcfc7d20efee258510c51eb74a3596
font_02_sfnt_off00010a45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A45 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3