Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17e7713e5a6d1920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 18:28:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66664bfba54c141189d76b195ed3f6eb SHA-1: ffe4fda98d3cb35fcb88682cdb6e78c5cb64217b SHA-256: 17e7713e5a6d19208010a034dc3c798a521ebeca3f61dc01f5d4a9f32fe0ae6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs indicates a likely intent to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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=had+gotten+in+a+sentence
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/14036100299.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04ccee4e92---niboxajudexuporibewima.pdf
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/49006228136.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143d474e59b---vuxigegikofegumilil.pdf
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83670348726.pdf
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/4407287024.pdf
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/53674593079.pdf
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/vojevusobijuxutatenisifib.pdf
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/2720462972.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e29b10c03---53124993268.pdf
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/2246024612.pdf
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/44385820145.pdf
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/91809045822.pdf
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/xirojezubamufuwupuli.pdf
    • http://cucthongke.vn/userfiles/file///wutekuwelu.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/34042206663.pdf
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210823015831.pdf
    • https://careoncall.in/userfiles/files/pedozigimigegozaras.pdf
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e779eb729c173bc501871c290c9049/93925489946.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125c2eb3b331---4077015497.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/15402520994.pdf
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d0ad7edc207d5c6bce7476a5b9769e/87835157813.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983dd55d096---92921708176.pdf
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3492806263ad2fec2703e40078d76408/54968030924.pdf
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/58962481614.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_off00014d30.bin
6be7a9d9d744d237498a73eafd243236534feb9071a79085a7cb445ebff0b408
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D30 10388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016494.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16494 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017ca6.bin
410bb14069933adf2d516d45c9c0d65de155a2a617f17859eb0dc91386d781be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CA6 25560 bytes