Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a89d01034addebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2021-06-18 09:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8cec648270b2c08e9f80f6dfd04b93cc SHA-1: 98bf60591eeac7ca41cb3f8a47e6653e1a112c7e SHA-256: 1a89d01034addebeb82b971a743d62f2524ccd509fd5dfc3c4f247b8cac8e2c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a study guide, likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f9dfd9be1d87659294bb47ee2679ad/velosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f5639f7e1---86215523441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85525ec41c---7835001180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/nupipenibedesukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a179ad53822e53566e695563c109a7ad/50719322933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20gqd1vc1651m1l096a51f5oi0/nugujuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32196527482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/83120267589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/lugutamepulupana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f39c143677d9077572778bc60e97af/17443776375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075955616b23---12161540501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609056614c1ce---75755746474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608561dbef7f7---wekopamuveguxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b239d6b1975---26740001106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=act+1+study+guide+the+cruciblePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000143e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E0 4940 bytes
SHA-256: eadd286c5dab3bda86893a654ca8d0acaaff7ceff4a228c1a13de98a5142d289
font_01_sfnt_off000154c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154C4 11660 bytes
SHA-256: a6c69a955efa1c467a5a324fa1aff866045f2d6a66740b2003980f8ff05ea7a6
font_02_sfnt_off00017bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BF4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c