Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c271cdfb24570a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 52c1af9e0d1377c65b2ab8cae8e4d932 SHA-1: 8f8002b414c8d048abbfe7c39609ca73329d66c2 SHA-256: 7c271cdfb24570a0f084272b337b8077d992b658cbb7dc4d1f2346ca1d0838a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. These farms redirect to other domains, suggesting a multi-stage redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery, aligning with the 'Phishing.Trojan' signature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carvers+creek+state+park PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac0add5325---sefedagorifetisabawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/867704110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/kerezewovefiramaduwasetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608483e434681---xivugirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8c2f24fcb074099d5b57885fc30096/womudakatepela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/incqhibmhho74b94j8j2rjq4o0/31036578807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0749f3de9---77642510712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c1544ae2164567c34a69bb4ff2f75e/dubarusixerajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb2ie96th4kj3todb0b8faobv4/rinuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608179c2b82a7---90660963195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1c446ed9d---64374212984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/kemewodesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a52fb19f9---subosadetojedaxuruvigisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c403341e0d---92289556816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5d37c79d3---55392547450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/84322848405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69fe1cc0a21e3ba41e0f8e6bee88a69/xobiduzovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/94680081472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/83572688515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/rewizewomadamubegaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/593cc99a64fc9e2f2e33a291676292a0/litevowetowita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/nikineleris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a9edc8a15---jozatabalupe.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_off0000ef30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF30 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 790e350fb64594bb144272ae770a66db26eea62f3f89539fd203043dd676dbfd
font_01_sfnt_off00010647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10647 17404 bytes
SHA-256: ffa02ea5016ec466fde5973bbeef6ee817b27d427e57d73c1879309672bd721b
font_02_sfnt_off0001343e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1343E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1