Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c17fc6f9c793413d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4dd292a879abd6c48d97c6bc0d69bcd9 SHA-1: 40896714e57fb9213a0b1c26baa454108825d96e SHA-256: c17fc6f9c793413d79d4fd9fd54739197b0139921522c751968ac6f6b0f9900d
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure and an MFA prompt strongly suggests the intent is to trick users into downloading malware or divulging sensitive authentication information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rts-3.ru/upload/files/61094304927.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68668417710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/58535551310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/17661128167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/29199455889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/10599847181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaicockstar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94860570627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/62351776227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/31168061551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/tepuginexavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23905106656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cliniquemyo.com/userfiles/file/sovuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/40859698106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/81884928101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/xatofajoxavanuzanisuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/09/05/xivugimepobosisamami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1843b744a3adfe1fa77f080ea973c7e7/72529894281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/zekudipufokoworaporagafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c083d002a---79959331721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/jidoseros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/80998162755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/32968447587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/65173608518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9bb824069---gitujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalsport.no/userfiles/file/mamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4b3418fa0---34245367064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3umrt2ikn8e8chidb064r2nkt/39501900601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+app+high+qualityPDF 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_off0000dc42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF454 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 6999e16b5cc32f507050740fe2ab022ab151f7b92c769a744385691f6fc601c4
font_02_sfnt_off00012067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12067 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 83e5083e37aae5b593d26f7b46627d4b7a3e23aabe9ed3858386660616454697