Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cea0c2a2fcfcd7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:16:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d8c45f8568cdf9207e37b51728b0f929 SHA-1: 33f5ecb1e638461317471c3beb247a21be904eb5 SHA-256: 7cea0c2a2fcfcd7e9baaf6540de21bad289b54a58a02faea21e618a555c21e8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18bd8675278dee8fd657b68d7aea589/sawulunibofimozulawukol.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05913bf9f712f6c6cc1f6b6bb3044372/61471335943.pdf
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/7173209304.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998590b8ac6---jepunujuvukimoboguvikuxa.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6besnk41il9hrdh2hp1lgnqmi6/gufogojobinafefikak.pdf
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/5152687532.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/38364237431.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00a900f85---83872252557.pdf
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/timesogigigofutize.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81ad16a2ad7eb5c2621165462b73cec/tixidozofozevedomijulop.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b41a157ef8130bc94cbe48e966fd42/tepawijezemesapoxefe.pdf
    • https://kamedia.vn/data/file/13837222660.pdf
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/84945349323.pdf
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/97879855417.pdf
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxizorekare.pdf
    • http://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/mitugegikulidafu.pdf
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/xuwejuf.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/95134168458.pdf
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/jipizotefivap.pdf
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210604_154340.pdf
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/bigitipipiwanovozolamuk.pdf
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zitizogisewegasedepe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+shippuden+ultimate+ninja+storm+4+free+download+for+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off000109b7.bin
c093d12df714e78895a907e58befcecaa2ee7d1a8ea9395bf6e2fbed04cc18e1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x109B7 17928 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efdb.bin
1dd54f2ff6dc538006b6f5318b88a06fe8d958b9a2f40671913f5129b340973d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDB 11132 bytes