Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0943fb769c47e323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-22 18:35:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9464127380dd1503a6613c35d2be9520 SHA-1: 8f92453548cf802214f48f49d577130d27f920a6 SHA-256: 0943fb769c47e323847b17842596c73404d640b0ec0e584068dbe6ab0a90076a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational materials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/lezekoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac6qetgvslkb2jnne80k3kquq/19234746236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gi3am7sjuvrtg4etm9v3jm6m2/pudada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826e9d6941b---didapamilunodonala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/38243916546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/tisesozubuxegixiforipelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/fisesovawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en1sg84s5dujscuvcmt4f6dlac/67564708500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke73dhjk22gnk7q1rjqaiigv8t/sabaserug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d788e150d2e9994996087658fb633a/20064899637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/27592030341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/76005259015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qrc86c5lqc0sdve6tshns8e0r/49447715488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2bf86bd73ffad8f7e6a766444173bb2/15872654970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/nufovaxunelolegizinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/96399751916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=schofield+and+sims+key+stage+2+comprehension+book+3+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B8 6364 bytes
SHA-256: a1dd83c1546b673042eb365540fa2840d6603e14565a4b86476c634b8bcb078d
font_01_sfnt_off00010b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B46 10544 bytes
SHA-256: f68c3faab445b120438f41a15564f23c81e39a61ff5ef1aa25fcf64a8e704c19