Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c17d9e0b9a1a817e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 14:07:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 88d0c76e362aaf29d4c24133da589206 SHA-1: 2320fdd7f60d4902d97d5dd3f24d75ba23d35c11 SHA-256: c17d9e0b9a1a817edb04ead3ebc1a4e511daeb320f264abfeb7c55d099ac922b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggests links to compromised WordPress upload storage. These elements strongly suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+diablo+game
    • http://obkladlazby.cz/userfiles/file/tonepunafed.pdf
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/91396291556.pdf
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/83007664503.pdf
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/mevasujerivum.pdf
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/lerolobajubibejebavuji.pdf
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/soxenedexewedisite.pdf
    • https://bela.geekers.tw/upload/file_folder/file/71370059900.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613502f2813e2---perizag.pdf
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/14442588265.pdf
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokugesuvitod.pdf
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13748029246.pdf
    • http://theshop24.com/userfiles/file/49321776992.pdf
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1554965605.pdf
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56646407939.pdf
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/7028405545.pdf
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/60247613578.pdf
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/89741967461.pdf
    • http://ryukatsu.com/userData/board/file/47955653625.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140913c373ef---68209965443.pdf
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/42410777355.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa80095c33bce5965a6e7d7b2ed18e43/43326652628.pdf
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/60874299108.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b08e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB08E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8a0.bin
2986a3ffc66bf6e9594addba6ab2832779524500ec85a6c7a416d3bd2dbd924e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8A0 16728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f317.bin
a9481bc9597940d6b983b7dbab276bb8caa92f97dd6b4d8e38570097adb40b3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF317 10448 bytes