Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17e512bc71caddfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:34:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e5ecc723725e1266acbec05ab318043b SHA-1: 736f1577b4bd3bd8d430a4d411e6718d8c67a0d5 SHA-256: 17e512bc71caddfa0f235edfa9c65351f7aafc814e8cac4ebf1a2aae1d13629c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URI links and link farm characteristics indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/83138659525.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a14aafc8b96d9af0e21f9e16834f01/24887037111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1f7f22e88572b1d1db225a864d0f5d/makumuwosojowuluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e46290334---4530554328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/65311250593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/kojuruwokesixenevupaxodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/muzagodusixubuwopufusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/lujuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/fevefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b875305614f---mokepibalubefigoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/13863717757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/74726745291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/56789582742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de01bcf4b58655f2abcb227bce60210/dagiwavopazitunomuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/buwosarewakesibawipavusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/37707331069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gdjsuai5rhtemfoq66r9av3e1/35291389001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f483d67798---fafewezupuvumesaviwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd0fuq8eiqm3nrutm1pp47t2tv/xidonekutosozabiluzibizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/tofateruwofutovaparolaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckjj9rc5e8biktu6dvl0498dju/98319562964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.manorbymajor.com/userfiles/files/topejemivujadowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8n95cu557m4cmucmgvk9l69o4/nisevosuzopewetuzana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/xagasaroxuxuradepato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0udsk0tkud8o2boe6of2me4eu/13181087066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pray+for+kidsPDF 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_off00010154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10154 17660 bytes
SHA-256: fb48ad451fd0926bdb948becde6beef26444009575fefc9b3910651c4e76d03e
font_01_sfnt_off00012e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E40 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 2a60c46627a84640c3e6bc3c7a7e332de2a0f7ba4027598bfe1fcb791ca8b421
font_02_sfnt_off00014651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14651 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1