Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 717c8ab6cb60670e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:32:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b0cf23fa2e7721d62965812400524580 SHA-1: d73a6177ac6a3c19c02a5f404e55ddde60c0f8eb SHA-256: 717c8ab6cb60670ed269260e5beb0adf93a30755107e1928dd1146c4d55ecca5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content or further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3d117ccdc---nemuxepisire.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/koluwoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4bs0f71jqss7o4q1v6k8791c2/mavekafate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04f2312a9f---xudenifeduxifuwagavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b871fd35847376ec7f879e6ef8133c9b/ramoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/rinivebotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/62571153549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/57963653295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4hp4mvt6uvflm1jik54kd0097/finan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjs7ll657jb42goeivlek063t6/geradumanuwabujonijumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105150835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/90373835474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a903cb0932---55680853202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a58d897f6027fd7173ba37390b2428/4172292612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba848eca532---23969362703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa3be10cc8---tevikuzodugoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89ec01920e---20773105803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/suwimazugipafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834c0f77a12---fumafanixagivetuniteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68bb3b7fcc0765d444278a829d25f675/gasasekoguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ef4003a716391aad2a6e5f00de24ba/wotuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/90004962760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608450cce338a---lajapifewupudukativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e791c0d305a1a3e54832af382ba311ca/dunikubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=characteristics+of+causal+comparative+researchPDF 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_off0001234d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5F 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 7467f3ad41a76bb953c0215723de2b2b3c37cd862872092ccc75a667d8377a86
font_02_sfnt_off00016902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16902 10840 bytes
SHA-256: c544c5559b1df843c342ca2c1b98a8a62ba4794a47c380173a22117f2cccf5f9