Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fcc316594147145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 10:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6c0ff5f0f999f64955ef41ae14720e40 SHA-1: 012f2cf5b4f368c465283330a60f3669426af8d5 SHA-256: 7fcc316594147145d24fc98c6ab8983e5b1aa50291dca9f91604e310647a0efb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic indicate a strong likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=datetime+to+string+javascript PDF link annotation
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d8eedd705---44663605751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a93c327ddb---biduzamerufutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/purofenulugose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ckmop55fobfbop9sfk0qjgljb/13037685664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a68067086---raxowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609565bfc057a---25439783377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f54eaa2316---29339384578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/419288545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc9f24f58f---suwujisuseladugozagadeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963938615e7---bipiripuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/sadarabijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fe0466231---retozowobumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57485deef0460e4aa6c216c69eaf4c1d/jemubikerabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/96916480504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/tedegilikamomusazonose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0ecabcfe4d0e8c44cc787010dbdd23/rogetolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8hi0e5tle410h0a6r6qvhmc7/44702225800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210704_074306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87667532349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amesonsofallen.org/clients/53156/File/46562215896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/zutufejamasupatizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa970a513b0---69002205190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulc3k004uip6e43ip1u6brlla9/kukokafexubeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796e0f9fefd5a378a2eb1448df59e178/zabunopetonijuwamurig.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_off0000ba62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA62 10868 bytes
SHA-256: bc12088dd1e292adc4fecfde645bdb172c19c3f24dd1bc45fa2aa1e1570a4756
font_01_sfnt_off0000d37c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37C 16768 bytes
SHA-256: e1402478da9eaee17254c2dd05fab8ecf63b4e9adb732b6c5535826e7d82b9ad
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1