Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cd7c391503a8bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-10-07 10:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 011e7c7193757cdfcde4620112467dcc SHA-1: 7465fb802bc62260aa3a7b8eb4974283fed6c9de SHA-256: 2cd7c391503a8baefbcc463d438b47c640ed196a03d46c2b646345e36f1cf654
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Multiple heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+lion+hotel+columbia+center PDF link annotation
    • https://rafaellopezehijo.com/upload/files/69599830508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/mutafagenabivofuvimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6fjhb5i3ohs1coujsg0dfccm2/lekimedavibawekonovidikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/37251372774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/51483249948.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98665688341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tigavuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395f5b75852---14319977668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szilasfood.hu/pic_upload/files/kerifisamozozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210904052551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesmiami.com/uploads/file/31916621971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46507093676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/90978590984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92744079490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/napadofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/84968079097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscovalles.comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/puromuwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355a8583be8---40228791640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/70317449312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozurekukofibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53435427743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/xidokixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.info/files/file/59699329386.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_off00010348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10348 19860 bytes
SHA-256: d79e82f83f1f93bc0862b1d143d8c09338a6d3563daa51bb3b77b6ab9371fdd3
font_01_sfnt_off000136fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014f11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F11 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca0597a7a4000416280e28ea57d03b86b59ea939d030d5597a67d7a103ad865