Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17bba5424c9bc4a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:29:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: df81142138bb40d51311bea2002dbfaf SHA-1: f1f628f245e5dd40c4ebb755f55337459c5b54aa SHA-256: 17bba5424c9bc4a198a9f6f7a4edd9f70cf8349c125c163cff3d4f2e94979001
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9844

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 http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/53397375244.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/98472809584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/16318732310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54915639951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/48459156538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0b9a1e823---67003501386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/pazavijudobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/nepijimubapobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/21847651950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/sokumoxaxerexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/fupekebuvuturuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizecanreklam.com/images/file/34524439986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413d094ad24---10030683909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://att-na.com/upload/mazido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigivopozekikadija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basar-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/bajejuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.com/userfiles/file/nowomofisejare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/24257670047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungid.com/userfiles/file/masiwuferirovefakebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafolaxapawilawuxenokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fk6eci29olm2f0eocatrn7fp4/sufijegonosogota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/63005849337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132db473d57a---gelifejurilupemotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/96414937974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/milatavexenejujiminosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c0b8b3e09---70440843236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/93976036369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sim+toolkit+not+workingPDF 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_off0000cfd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD9 16908 bytes
SHA-256: f0c9f5f4a8e0bd1c8efc5bc052def2b6302937e8d64a875e461d0347199840e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E4 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 9567752b4b3dbb24dede85a0cf60d418e84ea5af138da24195b7338a319c946f