Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cfc14855e0391b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 20:44:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a950b258b211c76c502c847290706d70 SHA-1: 4963af1c949f2cd07baa0badceed4e948d35e78b SHA-256: 7cfc14855e0391b7d7c631750c0385a42d9d78cb7f1cd3528ca741a64971db2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and points to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content, possibly by masquerading as a legitimate document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shutter+island+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10c48f3bd---saxuvamumilojenuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/31431239941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/xizezavimopodonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bitpfo3vor1o63stged3b6tr4s/18365236440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad45311b6d0---84336877888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk4elvs7pkedg175cvhaq627g2/ruvopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f71aa6437b---33067709122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ede55af48a4f2b9767800e4ff3412e0/30164664394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cfac0e3a2---guliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bca378d17---kowubedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/7592390571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/50794092923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0da8a12bcf---xosivumerutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f851553299d3f670910581a687f03a31/61427688546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/daduzuve.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B9 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 120c94daca67ff2f06b80aa0fb1250f6b7ef0e386d6948df6956e8455a03f033
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA25 11988 bytes
SHA-256: e616cf3b3eed7ca14b876f30971f2de2f411c841d755783dd7ae8fb0a55a5f03