Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c2ed25d332c97e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 14:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 13ee7df53c12a926ecbfe3ae87272807 SHA-1: c1dd28d6d7900a38cab6f16ac3f1183707046c51 SHA-256: 7c2ed25d332c97e08ad4e5f0deb415c6e4dd88924d67fd64392040ebef081305
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure for '3ds max student trial' and hosts numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download a second-stage payload via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+max+student+trial PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dc1743941---72867307191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150119_145928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1v0lg83q9fgeqlfbpe86jscrc/kovukuxufipugirezukepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/rezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607145510bfac---33824402166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607299304b878---31864198963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70a6b2d2481943a8a7ae7397b152f59/15241630536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/54022748588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/96181400096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a22499579---jelifiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6ea917cf1---seduzepiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2m462acbeq6qkq15vhg7uaot6/databilimepazujepozobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/179711208560ab5dc2bd3f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/jopugekaxepovoxujodasalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb121fcace7b7071a456392fd1b4cc3/warotegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE56 61024 bytes
SHA-256: c7da2f0b06ec351228076bf32838aae17eec1ae1cbdc93e24fe05c06b284a986
font_01_sfnt_off000195fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195FC 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 98a8c1a8b7d21d39e0c0e1e96a374440a6b052dee7902b9a38e8d82927e7063e
font_02_sfnt_off0001a73f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A73F 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 179f24b015f538826b97238bb6efaaf6469f0765554675068e2e72c86cbae13e