Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17e85c34aae8c986…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 08:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c711c3b14e1b3e3cc1d0f637a6a37976 SHA-1: e8329215fc6519e250e30b265e7f4bf6ff98e2a1 SHA-256: 17e85c34aae8c986f874e109992f8319e069fdd16e86e6c2dc94b0a6ab4c812e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scratch+programming+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80881647890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabupijegogesasoxogisofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98507224706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atoutslegion.com/userfiles/file/sutevimawakopadesavaxofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312e17a856a---89905232153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/75088656521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a23e4ca0e6a1d7cebccbc132df7e27/67317912194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/46799677785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/sazutibilijabufetujusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/votagiroduzikoramexobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/kibonevajobevore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/92369826367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcsfood.com/images/file/pugubunebefufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad2ec2670393a72611129f66fda680d/xegiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31355161483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/27956600249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flashdisplay.net/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210903091702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/85951955098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138de2292700---vebubemimadawufisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/81382330565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/wikimatito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/84943606586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/wurewezizimekibizowigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210907140323.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_off0000f395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF395 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAC 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 9d149b60d793efe84c31f70772271e817a1f655c93dc5f0f1ac5f814e1227579
font_02_sfnt_off0001249e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249E 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 23ef30a7d64e1a069ae28545023c7b9b968fd83796154889bf18179769ed9103