Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c74515adca3ef5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 09:03:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ca57d3af1d11235bbb1cad12df6fb8ea SHA-1: 4ed5fd57844eb35a99f68250cd3894992da6deac SHA-256: 0c74515adca3ef5cabb434ca657ae2ba390e2ff3d7eae59bbd21ac2c0fb632a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational materials, likely to trick users into clicking the embedded 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=wordly+wise+book+8+lesson+4+answer+key+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/2498675667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81sk552s84l9m9it8pud1l11o2/bisukoniragusepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpvotb05lnjv2keor4adtsai26/resabukosugowadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76dgao4rj5entu1q190j0mflgd/9716205105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/wapesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f3af9bcba---69029544002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f05bd76b8f---kavuweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb607e49262---63186928166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc0010fbad---18033998483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac22a171e4---katevalesapogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/67668368160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714a3848e31---75974966763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608998bda0e3d---60345398893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c25cc7716a---897108860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqcnhe1n7c4seclidtc1118m05/40652044510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44680d40529b333839bf27688b7a8bad/puwokopise.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC31E 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 3f3ed2e029b6e27ddd2c3953bf883a9bd008d165d5afdbfa2a1533d2a442f56f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D2 9804 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc42cea26473c9b310888d410760fc881115b290e33d363a3163ccc4d1116c6