Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ae1f4b8cc2647c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fe84c47c4a1372c9e42a88cb0373f5bd SHA-1: 07795e49df2fb8382bdefea206caa8dc02c1e486 SHA-256: 17ae1f4b8cc2647cf0b19eb08088621c9e70b81e6645ea90b39f6642170279da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document is a lure to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+jpg+to+pdf+offline+software+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/55134042092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40326094476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/67315766745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/44634174488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/kukuzotiwizomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da40ce7347---78407129078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/fodadeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/92154470475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/23416784517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740d721f74f---lanomegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794538b50b7---24927367632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831c0b48629---27093361398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/kagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/98312075744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/70146326708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/paxodasavuguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4fc8a5766557e8b4e3b4ccc9fab36c/palatonuvofejetatoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021051004164344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/80271375029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/89207381367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab6e75430f0e52aaa704b42026c1d016/xololinofozejufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/masek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/42737456332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27992442492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a089002b437---15213546316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecf19408705---lujijiwatepenolawaxiraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000de23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF635 16880 bytes
SHA-256: ee3af8cef95250cfa4c096483ab39ad99cf5bab8e170e8b55e594f63c11b5f71
font_02_sfnt_off00012262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12262 10984 bytes
SHA-256: b0aee634f3bcd4bc4c442070927dd2a982b18b6c940ac120f68ed5e1bf8e9093