Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17836a8b78bc5122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:33:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 517761ad7cae4fb718fc2eabdd581f14 SHA-1: cd180a0fac128ec09cb0814a2521378cf7dad1bb SHA-256: 17836a8b78bc5122b62d6e60112f006afe08ce6873b1dffabb53c262668ae157
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f12a5137996---14841944766.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2af07ad4b6d600c78eb07d8548e056e4/nesusapexajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/39238206496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/53930981698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq3gu6153trkk8irfrtsrhquqa/15599876123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///89228457447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momesovoselawazenetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84741300066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/83400535329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf61e4b56739cdcca8bf705ddccfbdb/10910681172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/gakafirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a7d793940---xidonovubatedidilonuzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c27b8a0482---rurogagowuboxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ae307931806957e4a6b8ed6aa4369c/baremikonokimezivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9703792618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/37715673938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/49545013721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/manawisakixotetaxofodaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/86774356406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/79912516255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/56283576832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33088586462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/gefuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=verb+to+be+worksheets+grade+3PDF 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_off0000cce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE4 17536 bytes
SHA-256: ac0ad1fe3039bc7756a6d027eb04844fdc524a9d9fa739562a8961de75bf1272
font_01_sfnt_off0000f97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11191 10744 bytes
SHA-256: cb941b0cb925b64488e24d8cde3dc3418c69cb43482bb6a71aff6b79f3f7da0b