Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a34f15a244731b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c1774eb5d671f836773d1ec442ef2f2c SHA-1: b7ccd5c3a61240bc7e1c866db2180192668084cd SHA-256: 17a34f15a244731b7c229287fcae17c5137def3cce21e18a35a7065e6c173d4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to disposable hosting sites and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/99868487599.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/kawuvewibovepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/fiwimasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607023cacfb5a---99052294010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/lakuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/venafotajubizugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/wekofinedexetuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/23021587750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ginuzaxoravipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49118895959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf79395f11a---zopitiforaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210828155534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c858e0d9f---pitexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d631494456---dapudasozuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/62384316999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cef8ed8b250300982981ee5b2538ac3/37164969162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960c6408867324661a210d039e694554/tubuminuvabopopilatugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa8a74dd39c5c2942dc3786d5bf4bd2/58839501864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767eb862890---50004315680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/xavezixepilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/33153510270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads//files/202108111149029368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d88169d3973---tixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/75889106250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/gubovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/zoxirinupemudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d41c21ab718afa0235dea948ab64621/lasitusonefakexafigiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=free+online+conversion+of+pdf+to+ms+wordPDF 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_off0000e239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE239 18784 bytes
SHA-256: e8313123c8bc61d94e83ea4294a42b30380bb652b55c2061ed79977ab771089a
font_01_sfnt_off000111a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A6 10748 bytes
SHA-256: f80f0984bd3424b87d3a5f6834b0532ada76b7093615508d5d97dd3c367d42a4
font_02_sfnt_off00012a62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1