Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17f0937674b6172e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 084920bbe6e94276542cbc2f308b1a35 SHA-1: cf662b952d722d4a1035e5a0ad694fccb3da4a76 SHA-256: 17f0937674b6172eca65afaa780681620291504a34d40d639ff169bc727ff1ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with several links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fairy+tales+in+english+to+read PDF link annotation
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/28483030496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee59e71677821952cbe4368832f045c/71765839162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e71c1b59b2052aa860e29f7230e3384/ritijotonususufabozada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/41689532490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bca378d17---kowubedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/pulepezakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bb136b8e4---nufutaxifilamizexivezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/bevowonorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a986804f399---22925325080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/3920072738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/556288896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748ab124cf5---bajijusotojukuwepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/1950247372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25b8dae31ea224d946fae3aba5858ae7/faloxoxamejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892950ebd49---59024698946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608428dd23e56---diraxovivufovisave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/rabele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/94736055965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0672b0671---7612966791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/61334477273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abde5f1b2c7---mononokiwidusefafuboxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609161d92fd5d---mabiwibumewodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/58195310708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/36572004396.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_off0001aacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AACF 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 1c37134605e02c9494f95c7e6ffc97d07a4c4513d131110cf749d45e086e796f
font_01_sfnt_off0001d951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D951 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc94ca4d0bce2cb6c730829641e9c18116fe799c101cd6eaf05a7738fbb25ad
font_02_sfnt_off0001f157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F157 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1