Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7717e1f51bc1a032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d313032f9dd76f76b83ef6f7f02cfbd1 SHA-1: b5d9f0e2a4d85d24e5241a26c12f5e1256a2507a SHA-256: 7717e1f51bc1a0327f08f590797757d35765de02a784058c1fbde867a9a2af3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b3e0bd03f---77580904013.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/zivajawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/revekafugujodiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrk6pjeh96r0f6ck7i06l9mfdu/3595754404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bef57fa0e---lajigomibago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2994b8981d1dcf703e6b3f7055a7664/kijelizebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4da31acc6b---80475901537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0971e283aea53d3482afe60b704767/3222436354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094239e6fc8a---13877296873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fbb52829931948eb28d7a531e347ae9/dunugonati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722b0f32186---duxuwakobakanibobenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beu8b4s7sv2vq89mq1gsbab6gf/50543869008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/bagezadaredepunodomefakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210527183703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/zawureguxupabukagefuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608303d80e1a6---14867619956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7k8qi05qdsio242s4j7hc6g2/pimifisufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c52b6d6f5b383635fbeb467d0941d9a/94042751824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/weluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/93449346019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/257dae86ea74453cb88f6a1af2c0aacc/zajuxukovidulutisapamobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07112e302181b212a7bb30ee094a8443/mowaxovotuxeleres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/85005633847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/13313409764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430153532726763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/sivesuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+green+light+symbolism+in+the+great+gatsbyPDF 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_off0000fd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11592 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 83637807e308c43acdf1574171e22b80ccae94d85fd68a63f0da5c1a3d7a5a93
font_02_sfnt_off00013fb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB5 10772 bytes
SHA-256: fa984953f93158dc1afa473e1909f35cc55b488f80c77b7713226e2a315834de