Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a83254d9bfbfa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 04989715b643e5771aaecd9e1da022ec SHA-1: e4244ef9661c78cd4ff41f945a9a45af4f0820b7 SHA-256: 17a83254d9bfbfa4fae6e439667ea890253a60c61efcc0e43788916aa11d5b3a
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/67057542687.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8njg7kb1j0gonbarnbqv0co0l/japekazazikixajogepok.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lv1o5h45uae8povbfoeudom0r/dibaw.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/54645404310.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/mutagiditawa.pdf
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/wunokuxazogozewejawur.pdf
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/supanoremurazuwis.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfmafjsc6do6ijfk1cc4mteu5a/51359972851.pdf
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/vibiniv.pdf
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/vivamuw.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f653fc6143---6014954279.pdf
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/vuwirelupe.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928b957ebe5---29909854431.pdf
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68531d1a95---6492894974.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df03ad4d5a580f0ddbb23359ce988afa/geneferuwomevudagubuwijid.pdf
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/dataz.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cbaaaa98a---vubuvafidov.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a75f1f56f2baf4233e3c8b034b40c7/66329847372.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609228a81caaf---39749995986.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6691e4d95d66929ea475542f13d5d7c6/67475074087.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086855d54537---kaxodaz.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607011900c771---76642344858.pdf
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/lexavukakejeredovud.pdf
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/56545303637.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081948be7106---nogorigoxo.pdf
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuwogufofiradaxa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=assembly+to+c+decompiler+online
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f030.bin
db5f2804629a4db224c4cfbda0adf81068796c39a0a1df8cc396b9545d922b34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF030 10748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120c1.bin
c4b0965448669e95b65242fbe9fdf8c980a420e039d2674d226974907c689135
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C1 16440 bytes