Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc17f05f66282621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:04:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6e35848bf1197fa4023aaf5fe3877788 SHA-1: 37e398da1a7e3e32b118874cfb1c51c52d00a57e SHA-256: dc17f05f66282621ea9b00802ecebb17f04448fcc4bcdf7cbc5aa1b7f992a1a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to distribute further malware or phish users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed for specific actions, is a common vector for exploitation in PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=under+the+skin+nude PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9e04c53bf---nukamoxowijubakametisudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/78622178173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/jinefozuxesugozuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3939561b99613d8d669293460ccfd7/siruzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/65091218589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef2vadkgle3kbg7b769ob43r6/giwolariretesezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca245999aa0df5e5cd14dfaf291993d1/82146523861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608634199632e---turiwomixuragatizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9122d59f7---gifulirenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee7279481e2ea43c35888d6d1a76da7/dukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de3d814cf5a---vevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985ea70b8d767a9a6a2c627c473a3323/86176733651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91114a2fab6255299ce7ac111d591a5e/87558335643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee664uhhcmkemhnge0th55el0/3783748265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/fosivinakebizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2782542417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/nedusaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/wetabibusovizidadikakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/72261973101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/45159943471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nizalujefareviliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c79a094d43---rorezokoxogetikanezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupiwimenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55639b5ab5---jonaralegumosigeruneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ad2db9398---tifalukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c449491221f---38148941108.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_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF9 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 455cebe525d4666c2a16426172464c16fcf1830ae202f93eff8140249ae21841
font_02_sfnt_off000121ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CE 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 31a6b71855302a09e7a05b2800e10c6344b0109b2dfcaf9ac067ce6508e2642d