Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17b0f2d7a910d69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-07 20:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9bbb175f65ebc6856fcc3c7b5bdc6e71 SHA-1: 951cbcae18970c6c95029eb371162502434c5253 SHA-256: 17b0f2d7a910d69ac90fd29b70b1a2fe399f046aeb9e6128382855e55a8d72df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to software downloads, likely serving as a lure to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+budokai+tenkaichi+3+on+pc+pcsx2+0.9.5+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b451dd0564a22a036e356785665d9a/47094943845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5e17fd4a68e7b7349e3cbc4e79482f/9157488565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1d93c1a4d---pegudijunajege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/10834911940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/souc3c3gmfubu8fl0grvtj2ti7/91106556314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggsshqofkd83usrvs69mdvbugc/wusebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/30914667354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adaad32513---wagipisijonopulelirewafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/luvugunubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n1uqk5crf9f9m7b4gm4vaodp3/pudojamezidapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54526f051b337293178fe41d3ef04467/wijixugovileti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd535cbf20a59a1dbb19bf796c171a5/3660007599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3b3a41ad7---xubexidipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/felinanada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5a8c87e8d---75826624456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607592e4a17bc---gevelujuxojafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806434455a1---potaropodenuxebuvewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a73647ca17---joluxorufofigita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/narazowisatuwezuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078445d22ea6---gejiragezubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/source/listIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE6 6500 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee8adb0bd7afd1af4f29377aec0aaca6427e7c9c0c9759e6d4064d54de4b8e7
font_01_sfnt_off00011319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11319 12728 bytes
SHA-256: 0312f7e3ac297b02f8779d4ef011df27debfef531cb782f585c0d09603f9ce00