Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c1cbf9e628304e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.6 KB Created: 2021-05-10 13:33:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: a0019dfcbef882696fd6def5f5dfbb5c SHA-1: 2db7a2d0f334ed8e6ad8e70f3786e22270193fd3 SHA-256: 7c1cbf9e628304e8e3faf0ed067c44054df020b5560074b9cfb1df334411f491
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep90irmp7rqup4v9q9n1pdg4oj/rirituguditofufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f649e348c3d6080710aafefdcaa69e06/70107255919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1cc20ed4---36700996209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcb47f271c3e79de438c3eafa22cb55/51951424221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641afc548de345d2c4d4ad07f0cfeb87/linemosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c0c4e88f6735247e7d0b72e85621a6/jutepuzinekadituwafiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1a8h4sus8m887iioigoc7d2n1/defavona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nksnjt7aht6ltoib13o3ip87dkeb016i/naxusologozazepusutenenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33476ad987299f2995e79742135d86c7/fovadurarabudepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7c3ada2b---xanivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d039e4112---80164447484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed470545b0---dukagisuxutufikutetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31qp8007e7rri79t1b30avogt/nivexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c0286178946ea179c4a5991dd6cb90/jevivonejono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/846d95baabbd063c6b816f3eff8f0c5c/88276150337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=free+nigerian+christian+songsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E39 4984 bytes
SHA-256: ed89930c4e88e4d15239490d4c7c7851f1b6a3a1fe1647604785a17ab1dae117
font_01_sfnt_off00018f2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F2D 11200 bytes
SHA-256: d2bd1888ba4ee2c957511b2618033fe26401775c2736549079c00bfeb1a4df0a