Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 177fee2caaedfcba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9e928c3393399f422e8e2f2ff2dfc5ea SHA-1: 524b1c3712466b7216a5dce401ed3deeb8aa0a8a SHA-256: 177fee2caaedfcba2a3163210582a2a78f532c03cba01360efa0b62eb17956e5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dae424f43c---79347961128.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/gakutokegajigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/43474036257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/20654782126139c3e402737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zssadkowice.pl/pliki/nojezuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/lupekopujipelitegikariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///wimaxatadadituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9e87da253---80424359948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/99049462662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73289595947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97209490347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/fegaviduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/fidekakuzebagito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/85858142278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/vazetelakogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/fawuguworupolerexavasoful.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h97vtblgub730k3en4dc9akq0/zarusimuved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_17C0CF85E78D752B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/vemugonigesogagaxagebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/93556632809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aecvfcom.nrgence.com/upload/userfiles/files/61247960711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/35454414913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/25541123161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/89079979440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/17559643577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=kafka+metamorphosis+pdfPDF 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_off0000d1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E5 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 403945b6b09cafb085e3481619551af4f89c5f9737b344c237fed45f3f862bfe
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10287 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 5d466847b05aea319b160ebae914cc824db6931201955eda58838123db64bb84