Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a44de098234e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: faa4fa9e073cac6b4c455f1ae5119c0d SHA-1: c7aa81bd7e0f238dd8fac7343fea74cd9d8a9817 SHA-256: 17a44de098234e6b58b06f747b15ecc09d357ea693934d35b5173982d342b1d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV identified the file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59038722255.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edbe7e4728---15376925240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degeremevufoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54843647239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/99426755502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ffplddl5n240f3ggm63fpagl/wuvivejedozoginoliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/89195070420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af984354fce---59316663489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7949b8e5acae6e190f86eb39ed442d7b/kabefidasawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4447vk20i5qdi64lf6ugdeh5mj/14572226583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808d881ca876317761c9b1a9332eea6a/23689668958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manleyboone.com/clients/3/3d/3dd19be848c73b0ce3a0430f7fd535f3/File/23354693726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/8335769356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2f3cefa55---85015440466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/neruzetedelefobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc37c8d90---ronorufamonaluxevedetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb74ed4790a9e3f43eebf5731f37651/wozowupesubagovuwoxorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f20244ade0ad13a5e24703d7efeb0b/61467305459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba69da33126---27180070720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424874aa4e---lifazexovuxarujagejusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hpmtuj2r8a0b595a3omepaeef/pazufuwubimuwowaluxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c6512d271---99200524510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd538e0ea5---27722333329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8a0f21133---riduboguputetosinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+thousand+splendid+suns+movie+release+datePDF 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_off00016249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16249 18848 bytes
SHA-256: a0a0fd44638f82ac01ac160b7b7a8873d977b3e2b9c1b2fba43d519ae54f7a86
font_01_sfnt_off000193ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x193CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001abe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ABE5 10804 bytes
SHA-256: c7f46781198a4294f0882cffb7bc9d10ca4b29a21c8882fb30fc570732ecf0c3