Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17f75d91d0344421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 00812c6cec150cfdd6f13f8d3e962bd1 SHA-1: f30f4447374e92839800d5696c4ce4dbd1fcbe90 SHA-256: 17f75d91d03444213d82078d32b05730cd645f175b53e86327b08193d3c5cd80
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript stream suggests an attempt to execute code, likely to redirect the user to these malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports the phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc760413a95---bipejufopuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/65109920853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b518d33d97c---98677517074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojerafufatufelameju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea9351afb195bfce9e3a6d8c4c784f2/11999085493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/mofuluperofizunako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969f2dccd0d---25389055603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c2e8275f4---62896407715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b736864a5f7---87691916251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce2c320060c87dfeef07283e41c6261/dojasasakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/nadejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977a80b2336---42634031972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedisamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/74038355005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs4vhr4agctg86g6qh4f80i5s6/43132748029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenld.com/userfiles/20075280704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cc31e7db6---39787805560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784f46207bd---72231197034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f5cf00b1e55d2c70c9903655fd5d982/2752361417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/48204635662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803f77077ce---pivokafepuguwubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190tk5fqor47vr7j42epn2rh7d/rurisedorajepuvutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=data+for+hypothesis+testingPDF 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_off0000c702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC702 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 62163658ebf939b99b2919ed7e3f997781eb074de232dc3db450249136987988
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 10708 bytes
SHA-256: cb9b9713f6549ea025fdd3f85a63d92bbd62437b7d0d0c3d44036123680b25ad
font_02_sfnt_off00010b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1