Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17c29dd77cc31374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 19:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 116c33f76e557196b4ba028464c00e02 SHA-1: e35cd880546096697177f8a929cadd3c32e6af67 SHA-256: 17c29dd77cc313743d6675960ed8156b7eee3aa2c02ad127ad93f8d663fcc16b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9784

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 http://songiadabinhphuoc.com/upload/ck/files/sivuzibamewugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898d16c1936---tofuluxujujurazukiguboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp//files/80090970240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/84223385265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/34064245050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/59434502501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1015c5cc80a06df19e323dd85c75b0f/bubozamosobuvofukusikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/nufowaveziwupotomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac5f8b09bdab9c52b1b5a32a00ef9be7/93902805670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk5e0i6ci50d1d30ud55jlvopc/43658167973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3d7i4uh7f64kh1v0fr0ro9f43/lefusazamolerupumixojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/16888655993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/31064566395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/tilojalefotuvugugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387b31613a1a9e90f5393ebe1b53974d/miwuwebomorokedegulirati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/nezeritatubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b65027065898de8fa6a7dab5ec8cd1/zalixififujugesofipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufua4t36h6cbjndsmq6rgtv5hp/13084501860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d73c65ed8a5a3e12e6aa049836df21/peregisiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogibemusakipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/23016861577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/57753570966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f640032b7b83613a46ab14c163673e/kiwuxavavuxugeritefadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ea57b5ba0---40321701610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/24626119357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_DE64EEBA68D9B210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/44885625686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=asymptote+in+a+logistic+growth+curvePDF 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_off000115ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E01 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 410e3c815deee7122fad88046944f6500d607cec0c6ef9baf05aad5bb8bf7154
font_02_sfnt_off00014806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14806 19228 bytes
SHA-256: f97539e1ec2eabf36dd7590f261400f5acfd0a2e1bc788d0a9229adfcfc0ac50

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