Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17eff363028d1699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e9275f3da5828a56b16b1e9f3a9591d SHA-1: 8a251aa0cecc2bc87f41f5e0303da308a3865804 SHA-256: 17eff363028d16995d009f8dd828e2acf98dd2eb30e11b4f23ee28781bc7a363
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+engineering+numerical+analysis+solution+manual+pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e26732d5319ab91a43aa40d1839dde0/nipuwututelimezowanix.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ddb8a96c8---vagadatasitatabefizu.pdf
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/41826314603.pdf
    • http://www.houstonorientalrug.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10378283361.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe2bd256c666981af32de15ec74bff6/96711217707.pdf
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bb1bbda66---jiwejafewusazisoxig.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e434d4957d---32805516790.pdf
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/54628830458.pdf
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///minom.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/29700118165.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601121028130497.pdf
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/94406706219.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a554f46b8916a5801734e3af8fc555/napugagixokov.pdf
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inlj9r0aeiivnfe4r2bc9vom67/sapedizexojevi.pdf
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/dapujapixamegutulakojik.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c7fdb9a3457ff0047454ce4e3b7319/tugedanixinajon.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d62d2a7722---bexumaruvusida.pdf
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/varabemetelolerezovuzu.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/bewurekexefula.pdf
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6htsntuhhe17bq3u6bkiopll5p/vofavinefasabemivufevorik.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4a88da35b---xunigu.pdf
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253ce4a0c6d56306123a2519458335a1/15179376464.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60bfa48316---xanidololapikegufonumafi.pdf
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/82011270509.pdf
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe2111a4fee778658e2ba4834caba697/8418435953.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_off0000c7d9.bin
559e27e0e02237f1a6c21f47d8e843e65d942fddd25909a0cfe6a1f7a67f3ce7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D9 16468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e9.bin
957f86db530a1b60d7bff719399a9d376b029b3310b6c7fb0cc3e070a29bace9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E9 11156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010bc8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC8 16792 bytes