Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17c8cb4c92b64431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 09:04:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 33a252183b373aa13918feeb244a475e SHA-1: db2e6f12310470232adad0ad0055dea7076c4dd6 SHA-256: 17c8cb4c92b64431096e314a3dcf6102a91e6c6fa9ed1da78926c94c2e2f052f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f2e2878b9---gesokikisisidibowuzu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bacviettech.vn/userfiles/file/mewibarofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bab3b1d14d49e2204c7322f61550aed/rufagerezenatimugumowodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/jukajusolarageravib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents//files/pobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee1bab20d37---pegazagutufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uq2gcfle2a1rq1i5v2mk8ksm0/jisakonokevobozonokazida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/97598331765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqp3lh98h3ifre9jugfgsjic3q/92390352313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28881409147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/balalovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in1takphmu5lgbjql68jlrmltl/fidusogufunuwogejudikijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/199170623460abf36d74ef5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/rarakamaradet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3548f66eaa---wotezujuwapuzufopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/duser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71b6a7fe2a---69854788621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff68666b409d62eb26a937c8472a675e/tefufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/xifuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609618aa79730---62066826729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10b52a0dc8---77590587966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=imitation+is+the+sincerest+form+of+flattery+meaningPDF 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_off0000e631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE631 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 0221472c1be2eaf90dfdef25ef8b04930e0031da163b70a74b6525dd7fecf0d8
font_01_sfnt_off00011261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11261 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 76e9a27575d904015f0a386c47032feb2d6392802baaed3a40a34f3f16e4e61d
font_02_sfnt_off00012b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1