Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17c47bb33a920d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bb2ed9c1945dce67c8f9e25237b390fb SHA-1: c4da9c9740580cb43f768367d199a08f5edd43d7 SHA-256: 17c47bb33a920d66ecde08403163cd67d582f3c82c255298aa66ab84bca4f82e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on disposable domains, likely to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://kammed.com/userfiles/file/88609751417.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimogizutatudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgcanada.com/userfiles/file/54901626613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40715625623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadorottya.hu/uploads/frontend/files/15057362728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/rupejirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwomibukuvezijopogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/kurasevaxozukesomamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210906181517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjs8dmbck24t76335r814mo9n7/55925603464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47439467471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/69993377521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3a1a607cd224a0e696b81a89a63a874/2176692395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109061306407862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf36981ef0---lekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/78282035750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11566508668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/87780996318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/wavigaxefijesifipegubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/91689109229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoresazoralimozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb32c60f3b---81796220218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/jerasalirapevuvolilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/sugirunagewogifupuzaxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/widunuzolelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=family+farm+adventure+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000ca19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA19 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 0ddf476b5a4d7a8710a82f45a25182b4e211d4f01ee129ab5a946e78a61f8360
font_01_sfnt_off0000f878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF878 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001108f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108F 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 456e069dd3d0996a4378187734db2fe3e37a2b00c8646dea7f7e877dd0b0535b