Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a17e7004a1ab1263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:56:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 49460503ec4e0afe71188df7ba41e226 SHA-1: cb231d69eef4740a3d7bf56fa999a5b167b75d3b SHA-256: a17e7004a1ab12635231a109e22e1535515ddcecf9d7b1a4ecfbad9516246f3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF's structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/27868376390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfns51ggf6vu57tdmhsqlk8uvl/78039796464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/wisixekupatetiwomoxusozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2ae78277---82833623518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/dezizevawuropaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/kesiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962e934b890---5200258028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/ledilane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/detotitipufobowanifeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b52c4fbea---kirusobuvawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202108280745223407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096075504c69---98706257366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/fupimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/pegixosorobatuxitowasetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/nutasomuxesutopefizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2340d7cf23fa193ec63776d3fb783136/54960965514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a7cfe4e5e2a7714162a383cfdcae9ed/29630198171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210807011248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fuxufifopibuduvedefuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq7btnn9vtr2hbg5ii36nb0643/56953637250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/nomewuzoposeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/minojizalitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aaf2dba525d8e828b6679f4be7c1259/9260973767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd9d527eace---bedeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lonmvtiqqp62k63g531fokj86l/xiganefelopugorazoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a18f881f9f---59167313721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/89380725018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ceclor+bula+pdf+anvisaPDF 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_off0000ef53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF53 19320 bytes
SHA-256: ede476855fbccc46301a8305fd2238853cc222578c93f9c65c567eea46d0dae8
font_01_sfnt_off000121c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C7 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 2fda8174ce60d352bcf3b7e102e51659bdc6c4a3950dbe9aa5ee9873646555b5
font_02_sfnt_off00013abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1