Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 717150813feac151…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: da8e3a12d33dbb64d18b35ef00f92ed5 SHA-1: 1ac023801c01e977505bd337a18200647a39657f SHA-256: 717150813feac151fc12a1762aeac02c39d7f313b68a752f0f471a68da51403f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/38811411710.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28868244462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74aadb526255d2ecd92686db4b965973/xirufugubuvukovazotokopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51842776460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d70858212b4576af6cb19f1b84909b/59047576764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7da29136d---jukijepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45368998302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f4f13fbba---4417692813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf5b294265---13225624945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3cd86d9c3---50894692010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f023f7f99e---turaruvawutimajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee88ced480---faroxikiwuvasogefasafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/wilanuzisened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl79lrv608gfk7utj1neud7511/medikuruvitubujuxajoxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efa263b47d---xadanedalikaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c08981471---ralozikojufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951f157d303---zomirufawazirenomiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/mivezuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc02277aad7ad007ffe6a719be9ba8bb/nafananoruruzedabexufafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d47mc42aam4f3foa1e5imcec3/83545473497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/34412791156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095384ab91f6---44531427245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+thermodynamics+and+heat+transfer+by+yunus+a+cengelPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000172b2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x172B2 20672 bytes
SHA-256: 151fe55251e190cbbdb1a34aed1a1707063edacad1216b8d1f182f973be73f7c
font_00_sfnt_off0001128d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128D 17672 bytes
SHA-256: f9ad77ab5e2e0864df7b883a3ad37d2c0a9274b285ef5d9f5556ab4ca54777dd
font_01_sfnt_off000140aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000158c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158C1 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 29b9d208c7b4e3d7729d82cf81cfb6072fa195a723a36d36f69440fbf993a7ce