Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ba685e90684bed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 15:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 1e12705fc9d0b29ddc823d1db7a9ec1e SHA-1: 03cb65fa7925568e2dbc954eaf890a14727fd3ad SHA-256: 17ba685e90684bedab6b18099d348b0c61cfb1ca9601c3fe16145c7c1bc146f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to distribute traffic or obscure the ultimate destination, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/wazobela.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/wenakizazuxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/wijugirisuwovefojebivevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/vosakika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/baratur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/33155053515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158f671ab406---41000311303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/risufojadutobepixamuvoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/73811640049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baluxubanopetumafipatada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/33545085105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/13962824336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63330768832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vit-physio.de/file/27939006442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/xefitasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/56930779722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/zuluvubevenegonirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/dupabibawazoredoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/vezisimimufefojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dicg3psv8jf6rf2acdsr16ir5s/88886882328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/milexevaxodanazotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/rapazota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17253890376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140171fbedb1---64639622049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=specifies+the+amino+acid+sequence+for+a+proteinPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000af2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF2D 11160 bytes
SHA-256: e1b0ccbe8860f77359f1ff821426179067a374a672afa4864ee3da87d3bda5f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D7 15128 bytes
SHA-256: f005d9ae0ced8113cca20319f7f1b5869685b1e154d8a45cf469f389756d3f1c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1