Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f17ddc21dc5145a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:55:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b641d86aa26b097f566b1dc048922341 SHA-1: 380b2611982c90c0338615cfec919f343b71642e SHA-256: 7f17ddc21dc5145ac4a84a91780d9869012803362989ed39bd8366912556646c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or malware downloads. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8t1ots0ocmbi1dk0l29a4beqsm/26277443194.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf209058dd---fenetemitowozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/73801959154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/vowoxule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096854d3e7cc---85456630267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nspmd7224cir1nbab5j5urgub4/jajometa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfc51a7173b---gibezapepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/xajamajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/kasibimojulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajasapobuwiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09fe58173cb38b80b0322103739df3d/4855806433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61fe89d61a73044cda7117ee9c26270/velefaxipituge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/96676316095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellibeninca.com/images/file/xowumuguzikokofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210610154547697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcjb4mujrjcj0e7fpm1t8nie38/90909175732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/59498838168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3ka8k78dps6tthtu5hjj0cage/fofikuwofobagudawozowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cfb8d65bc603b7e3bcf025e68264eb9/60910342755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23942cf5701b2d9a1928d9cea70b1222/58536442209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210817195202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/rojebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c7bcc0a9c0---50846033515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/83338327610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=186+lbs+to+kgPDF 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_off0000d145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD145 10256 bytes
SHA-256: c95f2b7938383f6e12ac544aa46d5d63c23c9b5e8fe30bf52a97918878845838
font_01_sfnt_off0000e87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87E 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 6c56221184101e0f2fbbf476db037264898f6f2a1dc48938c52ed46689576b5a
font_02_sfnt_off000116d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1