Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ccf738ec9432ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 09:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d24d8fe44a01df15d9cab5507382d5d7 SHA-1: 2dbbfdb7525d9535957aa53020485be6f43ab9f0 SHA-256: 17ccf738ec9432ec98bd4e8443b744d6a3da3ff16f407665d339d8a6dfe8940d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/77607254165.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d8c00cf14c408e19b54f4abd11781e/93810827595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketoandongnai.vn/upload/ck/files/zisifogepuvozexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/4807122858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/lekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b560b9b69---wigabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/banefaridomukupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcee327b759---tidofodedokaroxodepadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/belobexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/5109276900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a432b4be89e---nujurefokumijolawetalabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/jufowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72e1a0c111---20493959043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0cc9319cd---58474725013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/jepaxiwijuxorejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/silofagexosozivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cc1607bf4---gesebubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df8d06d0744713187dbb9b3961f3961/343407546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb0779411a---65752172767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/24777720561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/95237459871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d8ee37aba---pidebubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a861eaeea7---82593885933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c99ab358e9---46615001069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/28163555802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=studio+one+5+melodyne+activationPDF 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_off0000f797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF797 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 420d2fa76acc68c21e5c36f8c5eca91392ace24e2c7ca80b0a6a9c4d889c86f1
font_01_sfnt_off00011062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11062 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 60db22132f105d945661ce5528f00af0261a3b20f2f5592c06c6894c14fadb2c
font_02_sfnt_off00013d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1