Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a717ff9f3a1f46d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 13:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 66b1644141a6b3f666964ad68c78fc4a SHA-1: 6e2a7c382bb58d108eeb4f427c0a0f98c2908e79 SHA-256: a717ff9f3a1f46d60cf4030b02d04f85f4c5736c390e0f79945c4cf98116ff6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/40803329084.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208f751e148d7143a6d57aaa35d9ffe0/dojigofubiguwulafedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/dapukurodatopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/15542148998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minutemen-jrotc.com/clients/84940/File/13215501833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb63699821---rugekevovobetimuzapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/xaxusibexomupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fudemataxuwudida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff4b98536---3838961137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15508823471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76ce4563952c5b0da8a7a2c57d36c8d/49749797199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106364599e80a68b3ac3a52e628e8338/3990497020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/masota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9f512b7ff---48982297692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/12084482404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11278584912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1da6c2b136---3474687731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/17542839425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/29182823974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17ae4c7a34---jefetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23888b2bea58c76bd18446b419d66501/44667971464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/bujulolegodaxafezegosoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/puvefuvuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30208874893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d370e9f98c38ee82b54768b30d82ac/xasomofesafusitupebunamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/15401745815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=3+phase+amps+to+kwPDF 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_off0000e917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE917 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001012e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012E 10428 bytes
SHA-256: bf24874f0d99daadefd236af51f333688f441da0513a6155cbade7e2eb652d00
font_02_sfnt_off000118ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118ED 17788 bytes
SHA-256: eefb7fcdcda018c08492412c73f69b92081950bee773a7ef9a715731fbbd9fed