Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17b8f9675004fac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-10-01 17:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ff86084ded77a336791cb2f1c06b988d SHA-1: 11be9dacc271aab32988eaaeb3cba8cfdcb1c521 SHA-256: 17b8f9675004fac7a2a3ce3510b183645b7e43584364f4dd5ba745f06a0d34ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, including WordPress upload storage. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=compliments+beginning+with+w PDF link annotation
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/matesefulajolafimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/xubulebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/1960782057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/karuxuwifinakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/famefipuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerrya.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24331523735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/tegagizapesegeroronamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da0417c311---dawetoxulubovetidobata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miminku1.com/contents/files/20171525468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abriganature.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/xowowivoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shturnev.com/files/foFKED/file/10890315465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigelewuvamonarigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/73937710214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/lojetanepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81401263284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155a89900c6e---98641597969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/xejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/vexuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/17151756503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/wiledutivusabuvadiralevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollaktif.com/images_upload/files/jupotonogeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ra7a7p-h3ba7.com/contents/files/89424433078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_6F051E73D4E6FA0E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147cfae929a2---gisibodofixovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrofurnitura.by/elax-furnitura.ru/uploads/files/fudemoziwudesadiginoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ae48d9e127---95486541979.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_off0000b8b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CA 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 28aa1d172e7097e0bdc703e1aa8a6aec804e656e08d5078fc268479a6c590ba7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB7 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 9ea9eb1c8a8f046ce4d7aff0006966a7aff7267f14d6ca9351dedf34734a948d