Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f6092dd8214a219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 19:25:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 74fb4785ebf351b5c92c5ac57cd2cab2 SHA-1: 712d14edbe1d7703fceb6b83e7f74d2971f0a217 SHA-256: 0f6092dd8214a2196ac21b1a45205903cf5494c658b58e78e97f4007c5453442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational worksheets, which is a common tactic for social engineering.

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+linear+equations+from+a+table+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v09dqhhcerophokjfst96b8mit/gimaxabegatubalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829544569d5---11330892437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/wafagerolewujigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/85144024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/89953533110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij4ddl5b6k2356ovp09m5c1q18/buxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788c419e97b---mijowituwuvekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/18793512784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/2106156617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c78d42937a8973f3ac331d7f1afee2b/kidunoxekefosudaronuzazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/fadonoxosobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a41e45bc6---sikuwukewixapijirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9170494c8---86287617349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwagirovixamugiliwabivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdlo4bdvdb3mahap1k6dom6nh7/kavavadakuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9478a9d102e1a682b8363643d974b3/89476138345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/71115349371.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_off0000f819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF819 5872 bytes
SHA-256: c8e6b5ac15300f6b2a1eb3e4b88ee65297aab136662cfc79100e274c45d9b9a9
font_01_sfnt_off00010c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C05 12340 bytes
SHA-256: b7f54b625a16b2cd2b006bbb23cc02d4130c95d4a64d17553cf5792031d1d254