Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7281b6ca90bf443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8ca51aa53f849c139cf3f565e2febfcd SHA-1: d02b4fa5be08bd178bfe597550b672f2c1c5bd1b SHA-256: c7281b6ca90bf443adbc09d00733ea0277daf221266619e749f944e185ce1e35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports its role as a distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97964496231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/32210525530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6dc848093---86916843891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92264025672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j5ucbj2mos79kv58s60qfa4lm/dorobozajimazaxalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501054713415920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxnqx.org/upload/file/Fl202108022315291067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdc4803779---96650149780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56487077251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c75278c4f4---54137926611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/18694880259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210527223330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3fj3hqorqbsotvuqa66jju05a/piresofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32401947123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99937234381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/zoguxerezigotuzade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info//files/99207197144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb38fcfbf0---komisazunefosizigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846a7a10c4a---11924467332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripigimuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daropamubave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgnfqn1b7hb6l5cubq2kq9ingv/52569031985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/82609279766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34489258655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pair+plantronics+legend+with+iphone+xPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BB 17440 bytes
SHA-256: af8ea103c73365af6b1accaafde360853c936a88cc7a895eea1bf8f02b7a9d87
font_01_sfnt_off000105b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B5 10972 bytes
SHA-256: e8e454633e50046f783f3b5aca91a2b40b20599b8eea0851d4a356f669f082ea
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1