Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b6cb3fd5f659c3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-07 05:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 63257ce1968664d683a9ca3b3e1f98e4 SHA-1: ee48e4ad58af790cd7eb6e626d4c8c948a7a470f SHA-256: 0b6cb3fd5f659c3b88ed9855b1389c343c56d83b281ef9da0326d777eb40f17c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'college board official sat study guide 2020 pdf', aiming to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=college+board+official+sat+study+guide+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6860533dc9---tabezowewejozaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/xogawugemaregejulizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/kegiwetetepaluviguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac73ae9aab7---62237088255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/68276216930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90tac8pjb7m2gr6qef0eko28s3/32303316058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqr84sdhss2uagku4g0o3r91sc/jedezonejudixire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a30a75955---27216646585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd224a5a5c5a7388883c93147c293d0f/wovudejiwuwumobesixuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64652753ab---32140162922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d50a071efa---15030269217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ee151c868---gudatapamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97411639ef---josabezoredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditixasudixizobefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvoqm17rsndt5gj395rak7396e/dovomipinanivodi.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_off0000cd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2D 5744 bytes
SHA-256: f920a2123e681fe7d4e88943a05f42edc9a13450cbdab04fd9a91e7f58000fed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D1 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ec58dbb07a037702547d0d26a4a3a4ee895eba698a1c2edfc049c7c40445890f
font_02_sfnt_off00010542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10542 18032 bytes
SHA-256: fd0db1bd2617b8632310fa9dbf7a9f9aa17ae6cc76f8aef18b8a28c84fdf3964