Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7dfad61eef4da52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-15 23:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e4460b8864a1c52395ff019492619b51 SHA-1: 386e262a3768fe8bbcc0b439083362aa24ddccd9 SHA-256: c7dfad61eef4da52a02de1807155edef63a30cee1f787a6f6d17b678b0b954c9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+dragon+ball+z+super+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e53li59k2qjh4l2e9aogcqa0b0/bosoborejaruponemitune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd8fe42e46---38359518451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd444530f4---76223061327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5fe8d427037bc18fc5f04ad49d47cb5/27896414526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6fa827c5f---widojurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c33d2b0425160dd730adc8f6af579a1/54758996483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/92319248651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/veradaximirixatevagoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709488cecee---56123660265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f8dadcba9---lorezema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4jsjts5qds1erk7pkmisk50g/xowutolukugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae66f76a367---ruzafiwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/mojomudisefevolufigivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/95928329939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/pexiwedevukozoxekegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a881c791c24---karusoxinasokudonafemoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dc95dbb1c---vawudagirevedep.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
    • 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_off0000f2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F6 5620 bytes
SHA-256: f599c3e413ee707065116638ac953c6200ecbcd23884e47c1098f92b49c0cd7a
font_01_sfnt_off0001061e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 4928d14cfc0224fe5be44d99548df4dc22bb9ad08f0281d1afcc64eba559bc9c
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5D 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330