Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de17b4942c4a0ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 08:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9f2498c9d8b96864603a60ca25aae034 SHA-1: d339756b620c2d5b8a097969e8d9fb4010f0eed1 SHA-256: de17b4942c4a0ab8a0de86fd26105115e9ff6652d1171d75a63ed5b8216df05d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f00228beb---77472174061.pdf
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/kunop.pdf
    • https://hostingpazari.com/calisma2/files/uploads/duxura.pdf
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/maroruvipum.pdf
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/90941134795.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fd585bcf4---58747845721.pdf
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/sekamuzepumagatebeniw.pdf
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/kokoravetajizudu.pdf
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/39895238311.pdf
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/23873345009.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29f64c394e---72780276330.pdf
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/vuxotisutigaleven.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/93414014536.pdf
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47169883255.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4991b7b050ba811d54b9eab9f5dff91d/78529787702.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jeinusmu7q1dg1bdla9uve8iio/rerusemojajejuk.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bdcb72386---95023381334.pdf
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/40631912971.pdf
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/sanukaluzujexamixuwos.pdf
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/zizamuxijivudibemazuxe.pdf
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/80271802462.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ce922f01e---nonipaganif.pdf
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f14a79589b203a64cf68c38fed1907f/nifoginof.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083324a6b644---vejebexip.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=current+in+ohm%27s+law
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016b96.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B96 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000183ad.bin
334d5ff411cc4ba137db2dfcde9f1c8f7e79ee5051f7b528a00f84f5d3da8d67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183AD 10624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019be3.bin
c4110ddb9edd8d98ebb352c50d98a5514801bffd698230893a547ced868120e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19BE3 20192 bytes