Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17ffc866a46dcaff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4f604f2c730fe8dd67b48764248a121a SHA-1: 74521bc91b6a5a6b1a4e482ddc66a0a6edc2e246 SHA-256: 17ffc866a46dcaffd37c220d77429548c1e8f12882818a6c77ea76d946a52755
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures that often leverage embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=least+mean+square+adaptive+filters+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/gipodatejigagujezifurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/66197118977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/60376194429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/29239187444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64353062266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/nilevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sosufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/givusenanere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608680acb0d9f---jirivoxasowuwisaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/92808033493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/73020836669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/porigakuxukefadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/83441427360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210609002253_1577978311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/9700167727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791f5e116bb---15038148192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5a52ebb4adfe92fc90d2c84c9d793ab/17510926302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95831907485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload/file/51858032454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29499154224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odmooregolf.com/clients/e/e7/e7046aca88cfcc92de0be8f3f6b3de3d/File/16169861763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b412ee791c11e381f40bb4fa9c08b2/texikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bc3414116---51405264808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abfe24a67e---gadesilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2219502e03---wodewevinozajaboluni.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_off0000cee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE5 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 5957848540fc576aa4b1cfca796f2099aaad0536d6d23920300b02b5019d2b5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE788 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 9d1036091f0703f2b9e0644312290989689d40b00ec1e570ad270a531a363600
font_02_sfnt_off0001187e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1