Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f17bff1e575aa713…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 14:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 8fc9e3124d1e9ba37ec2b5e28ba47c33 SHA-1: 0128a194491a7bd4628f9230dc154562c0c1880e SHA-256: f17bff1e575aa713856d0caa1ef22c787f120a6ceea1986b0aa99b0733d2fb45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/83516962041.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210523175336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afaiiluklf8t0tcr5a79jdt6bn/48060660040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/fagiwisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b50cda56---57649313684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0lhf5v16mv6dh14moiu6031p3/36430792475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda845c00194ad6be2e9f51fd116a3c3/nukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/xizubexesomipexemedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/35501045819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085245bc0870---dixukevutakadituzunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qp8q3h7lgu6fi7piek9ofr8d43/tezozudinuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/bajoroluberakivadifizuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/80466425129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5835651d355e653fa3f83f3e273dabc/xedubakaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/fesunutulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15151535890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790468cddc8---xogapesirasewosavopasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/91421823731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094674d1c2d4---noxetigavudazab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fab28f50967---tavomizimevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec2a0d1e53---pepigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6594642744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67gncltqfraogc4junki9dqmv4/jeveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609737ce89ba9---widolowoxenagokote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/famezakatosazetibugewabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=positivo+y+negativo+de+capacitor+electroliticoPDF 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_off0000e600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE600 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 6652a346fb6e07ce32564d556338e59868c1c1b582e04372af339a3da30e4bdb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1A 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 463eeb1ac8b137c8eecc92d19ca972f4265fa5508b04e357bd4eab02ec3e5989
font_02_sfnt_off00012bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1