Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217d45b4294f54cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 15:27:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 07b28527c03fd0698cbcfb072f8c754d SHA-1: 9e427b207511dfbe31cd697f126289a1a18bb982 SHA-256: 217d45b4294f54cde473bbab219da19625ab858aa96e12d47260bfb4b65c6231
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm on potentially malicious or compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5u7763etfa3pqkdu9d5pcirq7/32878385875.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/nejuxuganasukazoreka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/63009661624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab64dddf75f---2447683758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/vebubozaluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/83310659499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e309cb245---goworumoxeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/sirudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0e0d28927---lelamawekijopeduzanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suaups.net/userfiles/file/39011869277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/93536529640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd90bad126---kewutufawexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/vejoxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a525640671e---wibelurixafiwuferik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/3717756636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/19354855458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppmaudaha.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70325926344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/fotusudixilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f8396ce33---17569274564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4704548b1e184b0cf363b18b81b24d/desedulojugopofoviwuwunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/vorusizifesemesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/nafefomukago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hg698cm53gq0t214a979iccak/gonapevuwoxabofejafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/17335070692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/51658976531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lowest+iq+person+everPDF 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_off000110ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AB 18364 bytes
SHA-256: df1b93eabbf41563eeb7c289bd83b948d4abafa599d753ef44126283bde8cd50
font_01_sfnt_off0001414c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15963 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 12140c10eef42b0d0ea2b710663871688e4161195827c1fa6b0c6ab584eb3fbb