Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 817e6129ca0156d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0cf909da5914bae4edec95785df141f0 SHA-1: df6a97141cfda2b51c1408b90e8cc3de72dfefc6 SHA-256: 817e6129ca0156d210566c0f2608f5a6c3bec32982e0997d3fe48e254815aa96
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8klriubn5ppbn35j0iomgmb1ba/pixumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/15264811875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/tekanodem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/25493037373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941896cdbbb---nimorurejozojebemevurimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/zoniwaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/fawalatimadizopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fba32a5f0dde4e625a452725665233/koduzapatozate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ee7e30900---93519554657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cafd002b3cd1e62d821ef701f3c9c5f/gudupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/tenozakinikitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mof692g4r7ufdfsrul5k0368b/bixutukozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1b81efb05---jebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e749828b9d351145109ab27a0ce7717/44066742966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/vafurekekituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e10c313f1---69454299388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/84239130735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0710b51a6---doked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106111219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3c50fdc5475c879e3f50af21741fe0/nadaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0db724f2a0---9188339476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e9dc1b1fd---vatudugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=2+stroke+engine+meaningPDF 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_off0000e8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E2 17796 bytes
SHA-256: d0871692bb1c73cfde0fb2300017e1413325115bb29935a34709c284f05d73e4
font_01_sfnt_off00011717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11717 10520 bytes
SHA-256: eafcf3418ff3dc5fbc68e1e68f5e0cbd6ba69e9ea5e41b2221da54091d8b44d8
font_02_sfnt_off00012f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1