Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 177cb51bac8828b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d20e96100dc6748301d13a842bacc8e1 SHA-1: 0e5ff89c9829c20f197afa73801e733d9a6b9ee9 SHA-256: 177cb51bac8828b8579d7dce20b13c9ecd3288be480d31842ddd102c453208ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary function of redirecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cumulative+frequency+step+polygon+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/23644192176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/42728121417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/41460226456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffd4a6ab8cca6711f0c5ea7523c33c4/39268511558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f9bb0d616---29013292925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16235894208476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34maklmv789lddont9kgc0jhgk/soroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/tekixenila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/19677028762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads//files/202108021844525920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/fefekorifokifesukifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9532724ff601e3239944cd6a3c36e9b/bukemike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d854452af---83446154069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/sidujejiwudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/13493046994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/losikabagawopefeziboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/rogamaluzofokuloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704c9031e2c---guguponavivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.com/skinkorea/Images_upload/files/84196962422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/18062242562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/26531449101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e53b2eca2e3184e521ff0dee3424d8/futemobifumidenanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c642b5d217---3821378694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/53297925719.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_off00012c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14492 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 290d86b62e2da18fbce0a0c473cd00bef6755e2ec34f8e66d94e133b2379a34e
font_02_sfnt_off00015f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F9F 19852 bytes
SHA-256: dc98c12cb7551bc3d1c8a84142ddd55b03ce5028aea964e1d153cd724534da2f