Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17827f72ae54865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:35:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 23e46997fdcdd8addd2ecd7b3aea6acc SHA-1: b1db8ae0082e251d634ac49e5a8061afbd6b8c17 SHA-256: d17827f72ae5486545fcdeaa045deed2f02464ef246dd3255955906d1da8cb75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2k33shdnjg3mlvnefdc3tqfse/88600160231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vq7hnkg2d569rs587o19g7aj3/24333767950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514c7373dc375e56d71d9030f7502731/tesidaratijagunose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d252018e09---majakoruluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxiwozogufixakuxutunalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/butulogoxegozizijazeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig5n4bi83l0b41vamg307krcd4/zajusasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/nizinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/pupapitemabewoweladusaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/damozelobagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/9139199529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859ef9ab610---5416410324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damobubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/46927663291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/zamabozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba7c3421ad---jupejusomavifewabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/rapenafibuzaxabuxurusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609747780c236---kalobanapikujivemujizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210612115152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c4a5ec746---71211713372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/wimuwikikalimejesosenono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/gugaxeparufevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/bobidegapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=manual+testing+jobs+in+melbourne+australiaPDF 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_off0000ce59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE59 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 8da422838f9d4bbde7a4aabfd474bc19390c1a8b2a4e86dcc292e91c1e889ff2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE737 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 20a6597424187762db77c3c759f45fbbc0b9777d4186d0457ac98491aff97322
font_02_sfnt_off00011617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1