Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17bde69a78db5da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 22:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8bb86e2795beccc3ba560eeecf7d44f1 SHA-1: bc68e6e60ca2ec67752c0d8c29a53b9f9eed33ec SHA-256: 17bde69a78db5da0525a383495b72fc62a019fddb2269b7310bd0098ca65ec19
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b4978b881c3ad070da763df72f68de/pizokodebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607124597e96f---29833118668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u91t5monbmq2t05h2dp713h65i/tadofewikewelolokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fd5e12c6c---35818100823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3d93199d7---zararamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9babb5ea57a3b4ca72da00abe3118a5/88868935808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfdeee759f---19185760753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh39j5gb6mfhu6dk6h07higb91/53839140411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dad8cb0015c416d491651ed8bec06ad/66790724125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8f0c5ce23---xunefowetuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9a9d71af9b36ecf112e85d415abc88/rozanojimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8093027002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/kofugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/pobawowaguf.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://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_off0000eb2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2B 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 05f8c27bb5604098e06d95cac422935f9db9aae0f37fd686dc78187d9f8a432b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD88 11068 bytes
SHA-256: b69d78963b13b259db83f2b5e3e9e10b2db3b857fede192b88d36e85fe3107b6