Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ea37f272cfc07c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2f26ba66b518e84093e25e9d1e11bfee SHA-1: 55ef624d8dbf1b3b770bc55c748dd3629064ece0 SHA-256: 7ea37f272cfc07c0103a0195c16fb60bc8277844487d05736c55380f5fd21496
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially malicious downloads, which is a common tactic for initial payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9177

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it+was+a+delight PDF link annotation
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809123a4576---wurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fa584443e---75243415171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodawuzubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/rulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/23886511324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8a5673ce5ce93817d50f0667118dfc/8241951791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2594d0ac9---manumabakovisogivodanowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743a11588d3---runokafifinujinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086555c22bef---56434041319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/76400231869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b276d05c4a3---55295507833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c34a12e10c56ba1bfee6d79fc7bdea6/xuzetenumilitese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5969841dc372fa290c34845c82fdb75/78611666319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f4d21c84f95785bd81b81df0612d941/76092210218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ee4a676dd---bawekofom.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6sftalbuqd5oh0c3lv0gbtd53/guzadoviperutegapizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg78mi1fpv2hq98vv4q8q3gd4t/bazozogubujebalugepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075da32bc00d---rosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade88970d99b54cd466f81320ffa171b/43196981023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/39854542845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d116d5c45---38203304782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdabbac67d27840834c7b0c8d0a1cd47/34227598700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa7854de8e5491ddb7ef8175fcd7ada9/bugazedekopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1accb310e736cbc14e6abff696458a/redipinikibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d6b25486---xogunewotemipemamuwojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/90146770557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a102147095d---75320767692.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00010c35.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10C35 27408 bytes
SHA-256: f9129f74cdb76d6f527ee6856de553375a82beb34b883e82e60d93c665634ed4
font_01_sfnt_off00013ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF8 31300 bytes
SHA-256: fbada2758fdfe2b4b41978694faf4392b05df2c6481c54718d1a22a94fe514fa
font_02_sfnt_off000187c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00019fda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19FDA 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 40c2e3e872eeea5ecef894638bd8a3c20b5bf951d2256f5fefe7d5c8cff51355
font_04_sfnt_off0001b6c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B6C3 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 493261fa43413161db8cc3a631d47673af5ac90947b46d858d6bfaa4b43f4f0a