Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cf2ae545fa20a67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cd288a0f5a514d42395d27f7ef63bcf6 SHA-1: 3180af11596e31ffad9bce9aad8c4299430d7766 SHA-256: 7cf2ae545fa20a6762372dfd1493103ae6a861d0256a786f3dab6b5d9708483a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a screenshot lure, a common technique for phishing or malware delivery. It embeds numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=protein+in+20+mcnuggets PDF link annotation
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b967906b9b8---zobekukumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change-sexy.com/files/files/37886474795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062514360435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/73853024002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d845ec3c0---toredopusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/if8a7b2h5vnoa73903kihqtgim/27650824536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81600522322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/vajebivufarijekixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/mavudupusud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/050850053989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/dixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96926085555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f50651bf---wejatokatesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49019959131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/laxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/34419000719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/ninubofusazuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210803072022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b280f0bc1e1955fc2ee40a229d15e69/jowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0c188ea66d29285d6c8a8306b4f929/kisexuwijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/202171185527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a803fcb8d2de30ee78d82f7e7dcef7/41656679381.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_off0000b2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CA 13624 bytes
SHA-256: d0ab6898cd1f47e287363592f65e599d2890e0595efbdf6611a575325a780555
font_01_sfnt_off0000d423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD423 10708 bytes
SHA-256: ce3c6f34a3b7fd1999cc8550578ab80e957ae87ed7df8e1a8e56b3dde28704f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1