Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c7638098e3277d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-15 21:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e39d2789f83522aa13e056d075c71deb SHA-1: b0546b91dca5059572c8ed01f30ccdcf5d986639 SHA-256: 2c7638098e3277d3e08ca0e70c5091fed72dd10b6f59a8e92837ed780ad48177
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subtracting+mixed+numbers+with+regrouping+free+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607272383e0fe---nifutonivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0938ccd4500437bba53d23ad3b8ec6ce/21287750648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dbe0c0868---vovisonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u90dfo014ctdqmrefj7u8tn6k3/marogozolakibevuziruso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/37923666370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/42683413522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/12425881937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3ca9bb427---25073247269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/tekikaniwosavebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/vulorasuwirelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86dc74602d28efbc254dc6d5fb784635/tafituxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/wigavajisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/gotazokifedudexumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080710a66812---wonuzujaxubagazikupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/65190467857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a6403e646905f280d04f4c0f189f1ec/37745412411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/42882385431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/6815017916.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_off0001058b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058B 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 35247d9136ec669b67b92e8000c373c5a92f6cba90cd3dcd76ec5514a5752c25
font_01_sfnt_off00013566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13566 11616 bytes
SHA-256: ebc0f708316613ce84577289510191e6a4a6483dcb119dac4fe9dba869404e4d
font_02_sfnt_off0001507d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1507D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1