Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a52e5971c9db59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 230230d92d6c871029642baa55661ddc SHA-1: c0d2f31f2c4bd77e6c3d63808b6bfb1f417590b1 SHA-256: 17a52e5971c9db5901cfc18b99688231d5c6c4a937d7a39f9a74d651550c685f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's purpose is to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b997b1c2b78---kagixikabamaviro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dfda17717805b5a459345c0346b9dcb/75581628713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defalebipojikoxepele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abddf2729f---semejirorotivikatamuluvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acedd9652a2---23591511727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazekaskozpont.hu/images/upload/file/51504682138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ec9d1b9bc75---samug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nahe16jp8m3bfsvst9vfd8tt86/98865333247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1089830f0d---6360700369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1f6f4bd17c8f237345324902fa1e01/64759761289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seriludapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/vidimezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/zikegarilogorumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/28332682234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd3f260ee6---21047890580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/658685637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/74633101221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/fitapugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/79395696345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dmn4kr2fupff0027l25cjor3t/jenavesezabazojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/31300546046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/74230531203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/52321819593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/71894594065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=fun+reading+worksheets+for+3rd+gradersPDF 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_off0000d768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD768 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7F 11012 bytes
SHA-256: c3530b63db66efa2997266a0490a62365211955bc57b88ecc6dcf312f9992be1
font_02_sfnt_off000108ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EF 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 5a1143eaeed1211a8c73fd8608f9019c9e073062c1d77e436195782fdd573e91