Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d6a010d6a0f6d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a882b95d570f3c935275aeae5f35f42d SHA-1: fbddeef999500c4bb66866a4ff66050dd4d8d041 SHA-256: 17d6a010d6a0f6d1e5c31a64e8dbe95a381e733ee7e9c68a85692129876b7668
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs on potentially compromised domains, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/nudenigaxonebuzesovixup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af91b8c3fb323e565874b4d1bf9e372/78286280603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/14191921578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111dfd9571f6---xolakozogukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/josomonezegabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/68565686928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/wesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32273542685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b4109d3122059aa67ae3069b9582f5/manerafowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/gabapebabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramamall.bg/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29334913939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d97ebf37431178d9366b9e683a04e9/godev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/petizejusinuxidixuwajokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kutiperakozunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/26096344652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/53341965223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakaxodejiwasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/25519889868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3bd0d70f8---rimolimota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a640bb656a---vofumiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvhs1964.com/clients/2/20/2030ff4f331b14c2016b95997514b7ac/File/sevejodiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2a4eeb2c0---10223985074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202108271606544207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/berajirosinudoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/puniwaxugufusupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=up+police+exam+question+paper+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000d26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26F 20984 bytes
SHA-256: 96008e326f87211a243c63223dad8040f51634738ca6ef63222b9d5b3dc6ccbd
font_01_sfnt_off00010991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10991 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A8 11640 bytes
SHA-256: 710b342c5997796af49d3a5d6c120a234e817a933d372f4f5971a6d8d3e58cac