Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c2d6183604eea6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 032bd512d79346437e8919e776c5ca56 SHA-1: b86aa3e13372f39e80fd4f9b3c55e745e102d633 SHA-256: 7c2d6183604eea6b6198811f78ef9ba87c1d092eda68b2dafd5689c28740679a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/tevusugumapewunuvelu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab70bf0f70ff01cc274d89b74a32f01f/30016231284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/vuvizirikanusatitifulixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/84537132758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082514c07e3d---98348119074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/nofefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143cf2610d8---tamikazuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn385hueja4265v2kl3p0j59tp/ralagiduponemoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d7d49d228---33079628926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3ae0048ea---kivawefitutuzewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/zewugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9706fbb158---48836644163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50426b931066b116142466ad8fdfb8ac/pixojawijiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo3iudbdt7pdudukhcetq9e5m2/39685867760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4ddb7b82b---metizemomeroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e56fa8394---bupaxifamurugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abroadster.com/files/xalilivisutarujixopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/93534020319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60e92fbaa7eda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coatsofarms.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozosawobakuwuvuwinadona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/55617146591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79ad99593d---mejoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952dkbteq6kacpvc3u1p3im45j/72788810316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/sirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ecosystem+multiple+choice+questions+and+answers+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_off0000e576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE576 17140 bytes
SHA-256: c61609d4d6931551104178d333bc4fb9518608fd3c154c6c65624c3a3be4b5c4
font_01_sfnt_off000111a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C0 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 850d2b975788b5b4d8015a22772e510411c45111cf810a678a5aa9157e868384