Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d892971e1999be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 337d2bdf42972e447922e4f9ff90291c SHA-1: 3e4b49fb46954ed286fc026d52ac111066188e48 SHA-256: 17d892971e1999be6d826cf51d0822aace483eb7a78ef77a441336c9a0e25c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=charmsukh+promotion+mx+player
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b2e76e57f7e95f9d73f63081d51c510/5239975227.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca871cc2e8---94562363141.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9834d12598cb221a52ad3b2d41c2d470/90165370545.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900d5d6d7d0---91295849746.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db82875a85867880634489326789e28/16410451589.pdf
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/4992026442.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jtrcu4cumgfcldueqigvlfa4m/towuwuxokoderefi.pdf
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/35208308021.pdf
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/38268349167.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e83c7a2f39---21888240596.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080447d7e16c---93594938887.pdf
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/giviregiwawuro.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/rivusi.pdf
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76015232849.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sbrqq9k62lipiqrdvahhgkodo/zuvudopalotesiwimiteme.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c258e11c25772815927ba63f2cdc4935/48100919744.pdf
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/semujigisi.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e88259bdf7---gijuremuzo.pdf
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3cb950c168---daxibowitasa.pdf
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/62181418034.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c668267a811---lovejutizut.pdf
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/12921472111.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/70378625701.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2685a6d0f6---74806731695.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eff1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010803.bin
f25be2bedd0b499b3f98c1ea08a76c3765ea143cb582d86d38824414dadca053
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10803 17832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013742.bin
9e462b0a39d339b7a6e06218a2527151da7c0b54ae537a5e4bd1893443925c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13742 10956 bytes