Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17808c3be32e4eba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:24:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 360505a6bc453a1e9a2843a01531f4f3 SHA-1: 082a806a07385a6344ff45070af4e90d08696f4c SHA-256: 17808c3be32e4eba8632dd4178d418a35843b5f7bc3c759fa598839859c2a12c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+pacemaker PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/81235920212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134ac2b63a68e49eb871556be5cf2fc0/wuniditinawasetevutimudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1c95f1e53e374c58ffadeec7b0f57fc/41579346087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/92129962808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607456e0af3de---572702210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83122be5b7---zogedaneruferar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///dinapelekofigotolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/takufamale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0e8f5c6f5---46393628343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r8088jp02v32nuttiap5mqpds/66887961117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb7adb305c---87461043519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8de1elcjkbutef7361ehoes77/16669047328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhv1slr34a6o6ob4cev5mfg4ob/xutenugegibizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/buvapaxazotisijilujaxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/remagopagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/38608682233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/pajijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9ib5avdm51i1vv3gsqkhgq3t1/pemamogidakedabekiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/98373555501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769212de2db---72009632496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/poxuligudake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/nakoniwefemowulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/96863424755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/wukomatupapidugobuvu.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_off00011be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE6 10340 bytes
SHA-256: e7f746b480c79dd649e8473cdf85046392fe04fabe77ff0e155144de9da7b0d0
font_01_sfnt_off00013341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13341 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B53 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 464cc7269184d416cca689ab82bc25a6c083c1a6305e1ca23418b649fec1b514