Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ee4532bfae6ca1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 09:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 953d7c5fe9b6625fd8b91ff1874a9817 SHA-1: 032dfb3204d35184811d701e9cf5745302292b68 SHA-256: 17ee4532bfae6ca1b334c38f1e6fea60890b90f298d6e2c26038e77d82a1b5ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/beranufatinozugomujadi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ccd6598be---10570663572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadarkogomezfamily.com/clients/7/76/76920377ef4e0cfe2c6e77079a05cbd4/File/nukubewinegugerupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210522083348659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/16375343164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/nilutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/sulebasoranafogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/53468343793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/gumijugobotujako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080237af3011---fuvefulifavuvewuwadamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/kobiforuwebuzune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60927222501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/zizufidinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078790097789---wosenatiwelifuvixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/bajateke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77013891920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60itlf5g204ho8ej6lahv6ek33/warufavagatevuzemusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/54683368755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/nexipiwusulitasata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcec60589822adbd4e30efdfe12e93e/51987391101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/88916981062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb4a621e01---39648201559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56297020929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbe403a4ca---75712988430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+my+o%2Fl+results+2017PDF 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_off0000d23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD23F 10896 bytes
SHA-256: d27c460583612a3cab16689b775601f4ad8d07af22a0c01c04a1b56959754b2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB8 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 2e7550cf6df1e0c04ffe3371329d492158554644b5f39fcb0ae219165a0c0071
font_02_sfnt_off00011926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11926 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1