Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17f769eab10a5133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-17 23:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: f6822cb79be685e1afba496d392c6bc4 SHA-1: 442e105bb5db85afaab61ad5bd2875a6ab037eb4 SHA-256: 17f769eab10a5133a4561762b38ffbff5a8be0aed297db47797245067c2d82ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+tricks+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/26548263439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22375f020fc268143c59d3c12af5cb5e/22447561885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/dexezosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd4112e95f4ab7a117f9f62e80d3be5/poparewusuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddff187bdc---62589151296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b1dd6fa0fbe0a74acab3483c56f864/25348103980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/piwixadetixenowowajapiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bad946b74f---wolijugagiminuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/37353562202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3649ab8f63e1ca788ee3fd3f00ba43/beragerabupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nikufugisoxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f8062fd16dfa3a4bfa1027dc8d6896/42231782396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akanooglf163d8clbfqginil5a/3481096464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e8c1e068b73c4a86c46dc6722d37e1/nigorulitasafuzage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d900485af673f284d59f5dcff4fc4e6/84928895217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/36943238425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3q3qj1vpv6kaos39u8i44jsm4/bopoxefebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B7 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 1296278426cf9fa1ecaeb689a66d5ec3e7e752e098b669eeefb83a900f3e0f5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000da32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA32 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 45cb12d4a98892a675ef01ef61f59ebe742e277cdd39ae283f3b37b2df60b0d6
font_02_sfnt_off0001005a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005A 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 25dc1b7d69cb91644f28a5d849e004c6f464f5b7ca2df743cc20f0bbd1bcfc9f