Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c7291fc0b46ee03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 09:04:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77447604cbebdf2ce601edf67ecb45ce SHA-1: 4afba1aef3917bc78de9b3eacff638cee870eec0 SHA-256: 1c7291fc0b46ee03ae9aeef1412c2b278f9f219ad368b0a69ec82b43ba523d1b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF document containing a link farm that points to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, indicating a multi-stage distribution or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004a88f08ef038bff753084f4b0570bb/79163009858.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/38414336203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210625070804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe7f418a92---85807922911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2813843114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/10963478128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076172718538---fikukanela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/5961674035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc339cf4a7e3a738a82c8e82c7b9ef02/luvaxilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qnh94eb3gc3sg2n9tpiru9udb/14483949734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79374592722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e1310d553230838e28065abfab5620/kukaxowefulakawerunojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95efda57b77592c66747b104b9b436a/kogifutozisogubiratuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebajulati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egeeu5r20oh9ivln601eiaiitl/58653616875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/6920419511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2754851364---61372586950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfa28301e3e---pudumawinaperijijenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/61409350386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89229a6fa---mobapibafoteteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/69660266673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/74907008427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cautrucpalang.vn/webroot/img/files/detojepotimibidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/17494738755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+use+cricut+with+android+phonePDF 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_off00010b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001236b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 860cf53fe1f3d96dd6ca725858630ddd676ec4bb5ce0ec2b02d4a88e412f528a
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB2 17428 bytes
SHA-256: ca2eb42cd4d4b2984c90ba6cd34e2b00265badf17ab0c419642691e3cc145aa2