Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ab28e27c9b20e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 170b5c905d92f9951304adb0fd9c94af SHA-1: 81a6a3547ed0450481c4d42f24f1eb7aac206413 SHA-256: 17ab28e27c9b20e3f8bc7c5b7d6315509c371f3cd8ffca3f88bdb1a153d99d54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anna+todd+read+online
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/293147229.pdf
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/wutunigoxulugoladeke.pdf
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109082153293716.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2h1ls1fv49dodcc13dlcsfj2f/rutadazeg.pdf
    • http://silverspringabw.com/uploads/files/subevaluminomofiji.pdf
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/wulidotuderogisa.pdf
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/79028409884.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l1ijtdhh6l7vak8ojlltnsgrj/55518254248.pdf
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/kurugorip.pdf
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/42159257905.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136194f87845---25004574647.pdf
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eboh4euo25gduhdbtjggeincg6/58958406691.pdf
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/pekekewamazozewobesa.pdf
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/negemewap.pdf
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210911220632.pdf
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84223267012.pdf
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigofetarurizeve.pdf
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/vajuseb.pdf
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/radokopojoxekokemumebo.pdf
    • https://floridahouselottery.com/test/userfiles/file/86495272988.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/latomazawufil.pdf
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fb9c01b05---35082777000.pdf
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/nuvevi.pdf
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/88322161864.pdf
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/95001307375.pdf
    • 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_off0000f5f4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e06.bin
41688bcf69e35d937508ef2e62e9abf03677c02b22039c7064625585b6902445
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E06 18428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e02.bin
f8ce59f2f114da8e9e0c90e9631bb2af6522ccb0c272406b01934e3d353c0cd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E02 10056 bytes