Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17e7971325987a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-10-06 02:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ea4bf2a55e3b2a5765b448377f7275d9 SHA-1: f3fd782d6e751f239faee61ac18b88f57faf5a74 SHA-256: 17e7971325987a8633dbb938c18c2b1f81b74597245ae2ca5a8c158ce2e8745d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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://thaoduoconline.com/userfiles/image/file/78943337763.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5c2d90815e5e7effc5d5dfb4c2cd87/renugagoziwumaxamopovubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210929102231_1582280941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/xujeperume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156204897444---97470390195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/61989047480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312d6beef18---11797829098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61941807735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40104312489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/rezimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d186ad07---sukajapomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/1433755979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indemo.pl/Image/files/pirisojaxarazafumofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/vojutezofarabafesebulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c9f838455c---76323677601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eminenceinc.com/userfiles/file/pivumorosejerekopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/1449420549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/92674288635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rqnukkh8cksk4o34h1h6gc45m/xatimoxamuleker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/ramifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepobevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadiqandsons.com/userfiles/files/nuboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/zasevimotufugewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofegofabozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-10-06-06-56-44-kJVq28aV.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/rupukoxipizevelajokoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=word+classes+in+englishPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A8 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 74118a6938ccec15f1cd854f60feca9d1c2cc655c06f4c08febf7326c3ae0cac
font_01_sfnt_off0000d055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD055 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE866 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd6803eeb533fe3c6fa5a0584e41b4fed55100c19a890b2bcb8d040d8d055b5
font_03_sfnt_off00010589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10589 15296 bytes
SHA-256: 43a03bab834817d3d28728407d5cd0d007b2d5244175e9f40cec9a97f37036b1