Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cf300b2ebc92cf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:19:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9d2b1ecf14c9926bbfdb228a3f3c6aee SHA-1: 631d63e2c82eedd531581df116d56faff9b89f2c SHA-256: 7cf300b2ebc92cf72f484b27e8180d300df7f4faefa82152b331d1888601d3f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a common tactic of using compromised infrastructure to host malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=indian+gk+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a185d96de96---domorivizenaratakesegolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s252qik3n743afeo0t2ralp0it/32060453921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/036b26b0c16b1eccec265cfcabc234eb/duroluvakuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e0ff51b63053c5a07ed88b752cdfd22/29331074208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac65f614b92---fodemupufojobaxuwitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e08916d72f494505820ca669a34afd/wirigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6c329e20295374fb61f63efdfff616/24836088208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/supinaxinedosotujusiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876cc542661---19452177088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/36080807610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/15906296473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d0379df86---vuzigolomiwusuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74c7b9605d---55560184899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a856bcc5e7f---rewukesagowapofizinozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/tugazadifeguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d7de3c258389394441eb9e5542bb47/24216218840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634b2fe6f6c6778e3a5ec174582632fa/sofegogawibelexuxalazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8499642e27443f3b0e96bbc43e589630/mejawixopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75459095564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e8f8fe90---fixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763ba1a515e---41558326305.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_off0000f0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D1 10752 bytes
SHA-256: c750638ca69752d5e1292bafe7ed18838e1bc0f589f5893f9811679ef7102e7f
font_01_sfnt_off0001093d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001214f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214F 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 01ab86553b744d925d6549275b0c85f32e50a5de4268b781f839cb18b77b9a6c