Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bc601a5a47967f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:02:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c3b61b226061048a6e4a40c7a5137149 SHA-1: b4b07d02a9d85e1f059e0731ae24dd3bba963375 SHA-256: 7bc601a5a47967f9d38420b384446c4e57cdb983cc36bf624d1a8ec4c4120a9c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm tactic for SEO poisoning. The primary IOC is the IP address literal URL, which likely hosts a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/ruref.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/79525703558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/80013902926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/witomopasukefetabugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12e64548f81de8b65a0631913776bce0/mekukelixavalinilobigomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playindiano1.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90309204328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a336c897018ce0832d4370e92752aab1/geziloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/84544699370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53183527758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074adb503768---71584880420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/18397134767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/3048442565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b098b722aaec603b3990d17477df6f/kulefixegujizofuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/jisivewewafekepitenura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e28d8ff26---puzerivopisawigaxed.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4d4da837d---72675781964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenzaeden-albisola.com/userfiles/files/29915303983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/sewebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62b7f69bea---27243762445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f3f2784c8cded6c06aaa7574256595/35811010115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da380bea15e688fe7a61444f2031754/rezufovamazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=soundcraft+mfxi+20+mixer+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000caca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACA 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca0d3758096c5722504c390f67d6d4afea51403767157fc6fc243d1a75698ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEA 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 031d9dddedc41bbe179c923bcd2bae84dfa1021eeb39e7a9ee1d224136bdd230