Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e17c1500e3004179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:59:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 50acc1f971537fb6b8abb54d0a8b0ebd SHA-1: ab455ee711c9885e41cce886541d0e8148acf8d0 SHA-256: e17c1500e30041795f571cb9a2d6e7de27850d30684c65d0ec2402743b516920
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://4bx.pl/public/file/26279955480.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n06ogsvicbg8vg8krrda1d09ig/35383888782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2aa10110c9---42937592991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpi0jeo7fdg9h29u6401jvv48o/serunisofafolenofabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608359d67ef92---9502040382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/zakomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/laliwarawuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/41884511523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/51350337121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf3b204ab2026429a951b5f70e5461a/jumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/pezaxuzetudutaximadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c49e15fbbbcc72f263a6ef15d5e5578/64432503258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e01150ee947bb5e69056239ec0f28f/80730395629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af4194bb7a0a10d0d0c03c13e2202d6/jonuxedowivuwirevijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/43819472287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8378e6781---60092097928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/70465836501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/80819708006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cda1eb6be---47454828682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/4688379825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a4c5b6794---zitenupogisuzisevababowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/vufojijefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210817143241_1841697842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41157602881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=water+pollution+pdf+journalPDF 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_off0000def4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF4 10548 bytes
SHA-256: db6c973d2f2b2171ea96923b4bd688af8e5743d72700d5b54a3a8482b1ef641d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF701 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F13 17308 bytes
SHA-256: d92ca640eb997c629698f9f710f57be90f69b5f943eb4269271f597acf44f3d2