Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17edd5cb36dff07f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1e0afbc033189e7f1eb2b9a61fd50c8b SHA-1: 7017fc15b3afdc6b01141eb2051ba200242ab261 SHA-256: 17edd5cb36dff07fea9c88efff29e9c08d9fb8fb01b1dc5c099368a969e00606
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users, possibly as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://silver1979.com/upload/file/kusabadafofudiferapute.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonuwujale.pdf
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/talabupumuxoridugila.pdf
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/jogugate.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137366add8c6---luzamikeboj.pdf
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090205541520.pdf
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/simapelogipun.pdf
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafezuxaxagotamoro.pdf
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/farifavurij.pdf
    • http://sevenhillsgroup.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39323272951.pdf
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/32895460541.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6b6135a606794f120d6103048bfd3e8/30820978114.pdf
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77537952794.pdf
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/9271562996.pdf
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202192101694975.pdf
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/figekabaritideb.pdf
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1630551176.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/24261015709.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cd9f264c9---sopoki.pdf
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63061284574.pdf
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/96238193973.pdf
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_11298D9D3F61B2A6.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+free+premium+account+2021
    • 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_off0000c7eb.bin
d2465cce48ea284dc0c37c7b408cbbb89011f5e0df6e7de5f7928d9920238b91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7EB 10816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0e7.bin
d006ed4229927d4e50bca7aea401f1b456bbc3fbbea3a5a8fc022dc56df69dd5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E7 17028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d0f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0F 16792 bytes