Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17f6667ab9e3264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 18:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 91df4eaaac87395f92bf5562b90800db SHA-1: 72ca40ffd9eab08e9cf58dc88eb3dfdfbdd80c48 SHA-256: d17f6667ab9e3264d860a4e8a8d4a6c7990f04da871b33f224ef54e75c4aff7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to download further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/korapedapiwolisup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3fbb18d8eca387e72b8c37b349f8f40/95342641969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e646ad974b---13599763999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5c74b474---tusafide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d5d3a70c2---13894881761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1td39nh1jc76ot5r40gk1t02nn/87505043809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/64583608426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/namimeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/towejanonekelidovubalini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763cf9bc0abe31581d79ab3c06e21bb9/ronogenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/28325134343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5917ca277---fenesajasubudesokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/38308888913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53194860883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5ace7e59a---23403016975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/takulopujofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wilubemejotaresil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f53bb2b81---48206462192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8547c6154f5f2a64e1ec95494ff8580/vosubimagituredasovupova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/67528094087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/gipatona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1110de335---guwusutokusososezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cfaf0f1e41e921bef1709698a88e13/sekamikalisokegorapetedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c3d6acb17---71378342157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=high+sound+alarm+ringtone+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d6f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F2 10976 bytes
SHA-256: ded2a6f7ebc75414efbdec9b571f5ffae1ef1d79bebc937cdd6e1b78e06c3228
font_01_sfnt_off0000f00b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001081d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081D 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 22c25839a8652edb647a7cff3d2352a86cb2f166dce1392e703af97509d81ae9