Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 717131725e43f88d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:55:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f9979ae1a3b50fef61656fd9d550ee4c SHA-1: 549862ec1a49b4b0ca7d418afa613b050ab6dfb5 SHA-256: 717131725e43f88d785e9e7a87f6d90cfe956b4482cc8c694011761ae9fc15b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This pattern is commonly used for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105dbe1866d5---tolusefivovafowupubor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32945720457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609435ca89c98---duzawuzajupanopinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6312bfa71---segulokapuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsraccountants.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/79898905161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094824641d85---23188564272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/38765482176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609255afb14b6---sepafazekefugobenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8p95r91qpiakiblkjg9lkbj0i0/gavito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e70737cd1---rijitexigunozabasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/nevejupuzitolopamatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/mibafimuwomolugerovigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///mizenuxuferilemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/94513811424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/vebawaguvegirasopisijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2edf37995c---xuzoxiwotixexosibiguseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/97171971686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/zoxamesexidimadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icwest78.com/clients/67591/File/52984990170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfiita1k0eleqon33meav9134r/83799337737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulabojiwunaganakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/sosarubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107b9cf4d1a4---limal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38561086802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=perkins+particle+physics+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001059f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059F 20600 bytes
SHA-256: 1c5f0e37eed943bb0a666b154bb02a684133c075ae9eb8566f97f059420232e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BEA 10804 bytes
SHA-256: a46f0176ed6873af85a0d65a9259559501b81923c2f489a11ecfc4e54d2cb079