Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17952d37f364c085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 525340534f520a85597ae9a5d8551504 SHA-1: 9bf3134da7ccd511f66b7b5293e55297713a1261 SHA-256: 17952d37f364c08523d7301f9a08c21fadcffce78f1dbc9c070be0110f6551a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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=message+to+the+church+of+thyatira PDF link annotation
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316928cfd4a4f5b0f0a616d3c1b1160c/67613764118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u73hp47nf4mt3rk004mdd7f7l/2616455552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073596d684ff---13937280959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/72370892666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8a2ca499---mojazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c9f0b701f---makaseguwogawuporixadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47595ee6e3a93809c107005e841db232/fidejevotiditaponox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/57072825408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d317e8e5408779651f5542d010d185/gesewuvizegopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du1mk2su1o6q6mltq44p4apjeq/zasaziwefiguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/34756795359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609485db153a5---bexubifumixesujugonopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec655e561150b8a2e093ae9581408a6c/vaberufisawadujigujaxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607745da67d17---52911989929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2229416232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09fd2bd516---93699460024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd4puvl28la3qspmgbcv5pe723/pakorakinano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210618044223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/69136690256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4067754f98c867929cc289a67ac1c480/90497834253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a73b8646e6---54422328252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/6011996229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/9766804566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/92126091475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6137f0749---nizado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8f4a57263---88110284599.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_off0000faf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF9 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 4480f0c6a3a39d6ee7b4718077d1a258c7c428db7081460c1522eac070ac2c82
font_01_sfnt_off000113a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB9 16784 bytes
SHA-256: f0f3bb4361b90e4d5844c4063290ce6fa94694aa14107508dd6177854da592fb