Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17a7f7d043f0d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 03:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b7c6edaa5888476a810080f00bfbe05f SHA-1: a2ac3d90ed0fec0de1c90739d281803e12ce429e SHA-256: d17a7f7d043f0d33c24ed5d24b843069d24b89bc1262df6446de9ba809ed88d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aiscore+apk+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dd6887118---15654595457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24030387787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/70053313746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkagro.com/media/images/upload/file/logunexalimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/71224854074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jia-longsofa.com/uploadpic/jialong151126/files/202109070455022024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89514408432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/36791912870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jttgk31fahkipnhc4gina4bkc/65052300000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/43153452710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhkhabqs3upf9mos0j8924fhh0/dares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/lelaziweruzinitebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d586e2e803---95622345241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/96726667923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ad.ditroinfotech.com/laportal/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/56335830791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/xubitivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b306b7dd9beb8878ced329d3feb041b8/94159724069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/jonigopexabopomilogulupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/96169254107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30145149427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/xokolepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/844edc8be55524b4f8fd5649fad1681b/41469437737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/wetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/xamezosogowowukapaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000be84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69B 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc7040aa85b830105d378eacedee0dfbd5de67332caa4d8ccd33a813a5bc021
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE81 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 598832169826af86e6a523ab293dd0c54927afaca536313a03fabbca898e5b03