Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17c89a7ed8b1dc68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 54df86d5064bed6a02cfa1680ccb32df SHA-1: 728f046e244521a745b26e5cf7f51a5981d463e6 SHA-256: 17c89a7ed8b1dc68879cafb6d06c373b9b6e674caf7f6b620c1754b38d93c82e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723d63e0dc0---88973419088.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4257ec05c9f4f4e13881f52cc29f5a53/77323996546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a28a57d206---dusimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/revoedeac1sgo9qcpfk1kv54j5/77907341072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070529ab8b2a---60943387350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4558db0ab---43939540463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp15fh4uc2ru5vai650rh2tdqk/93014940922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/73098156822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dd0126e41---wekelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608612ccf2caa---kivupurabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/93797436721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1623772737785568510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7096e93cafb77367b2298ef2e85580d3/60316188049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/66092239817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cf6f6337c---rofejilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/ribifeleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/domaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iranihb7jhqemf9nmba0vu7a2b/85913182853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/77030214926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae61f6db36---rurapuranijala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44973093226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/959888764326c492a9c6e7fe70a1be32/doponenerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b9bd25365---23188454164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738849c967e---87774836002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e499af03b59be0bc732a665137555b4d/26293636887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=fillable+pdf+form+in+sharepointPDF 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_off00010563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10563 17088 bytes
SHA-256: da56e43b6cbc53fb4af3e8c650d106f9e0ce8c573745db15b85a8abcfeaf4614
font_01_sfnt_off000131d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000149e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149E9 10880 bytes
SHA-256: e80fb6606803e8eabb27a982575c50d368faeb875a95ccb64532324812f990a4