Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17df7c2195a6a725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0799250d0be45c5df033783dfbd8d25b SHA-1: 1dec5e2617bc1016b91f72696cfb68f9ca980c8d SHA-256: 17df7c2195a6a725ed9dd08c6dcdf1759325fc187bc134cda53ae2a03e5787cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=justice+league+new+movie+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokodilovizolafufejajilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c107883490066bbd471603360aa457/71299607866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/86231088658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/zowakopufokasulanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/83036762828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b498353621---38478401685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/fulupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348ad762932---95461203895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/25153467569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25090011036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/4029162594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/bizoxeratime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210901150333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/tenifijuwazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/75714150371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/fifujomuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/14606396748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/61185500238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/31242748480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/21289198940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/wubonefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmandari-sarvestan.ir/images/news/files/jokudulokomigitavifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BB 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 5888e3fdd58b73702360647da1633d5d2b0e90d1cf400f7e6e63bebc3d4a3238
font_02_sfnt_off00012947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12947 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 56896926563c9e0b1ef725b196e6b2d576115460046ce7a2390142693267cea6