Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a8415ce7ca9abaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-12 14:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9118154711674aabce6bffdfd355c4c9 SHA-1: fd5c1ae4eaa33cfbda61da4ba671d0f1ccbf79c3 SHA-256: 1a8415ce7ca9abaaabcbea99e56ecda45f5ae52a7d2f588f1c7413cea93282d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords like 'Gateway to maturita b1 key' which, combined with the URLs, points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gateway+to+maturita+b1%252B+key PDF link annotation
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f93817ce97---98721916235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip7bg2nm3fnatl2ua1ntgo9du1/xevililubogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/lebisexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/rupetakuzixopabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeba71481c---72558671014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/39099828495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cb5347087---27438605925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/xafozemiriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/xetosinuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842b29bf662---89680159717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5834883c8081645db32103f6ad01333/22898269290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b4e9ccf570554ea6046bbc871c26d6/32263261440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5292ee65e9e5732606109624f979ef32/63149385628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/fipofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8326c40c2---rosiwadowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/47414715003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3679f6c4ab---38308192919.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_off0000efe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE0 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 5c75cc56993afe83d11b1b63268749d9ee71ecee8c97d4e093a311b487f8005f
font_01_sfnt_off0001014c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014C 12372 bytes
SHA-256: b3867e50257c6e6f36031426b4c1c18d5773deb836b607c3fa50699b3cde85f4