Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7717683365eea38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 10:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 272e9b95393e6e0c7299e7c55e61a0b4 SHA-1: ffef3c64381300f0ba519e39e79a7e3afc599075 SHA-256: f7717683365eea38278c93a0540e6064f13a6868542afbd2604bdad6bb55e1cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to exploit user interaction to visit malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+dictionnaire+francais+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156069c0c68b---75305027429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/kuzuvuvukorefilowaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/41494692836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bodelukabuvesotewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt2.com/contents/files/zafibezabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktien-analyse.de/images/File/42972399669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b091fab987---sisutijetekuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-union05.ru/files/file/61646567817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46999590430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/35735437386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f22785c7c2---manojofefosidufoduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroupllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77641702044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/wudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/zevejujemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134720837c61---53640875652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/sunumivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorepetycje.eu/Upload/file/63123482534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/fireru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/98170104487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/dinidupubonoxadakaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/paguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/70509668578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/mobexesitudujirodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614044b4176fd---nitulovin.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_off0000b4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFA 10952 bytes
SHA-256: ee1c2390c12cfe6acba5b9c2a07a7d5cf7d9746c53d5e68ebeaa8cc2b59d3fc4
font_02_sfnt_off0000e624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE624 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 493fbe156a636a3a5e855e3d4d07cbb9b46a060469b22550663bd3b75402aa6b

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