Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 222ae850af682f28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-05-03 03:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 6837003edc3eb70bd0ab03d343ac6d23 SHA-1: 0ee6cb2f96102402098f033ce44c4629b0a673f5 SHA-256: 222ae850af682f2840e7a5f60787f8bcff1c4a41312fcb707e07b256f71c6bd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file is detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for a physics worksheet, a common tactic to entice users to click on 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://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9fbae613d3785587e2bdcf75ff1378/lisevovubesubujin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm3ccsrs179co4db9g0e4ar7e2/80066719553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3f04a87e9---mizeroxanumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d94910484d---66839100303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8c707e60843529a15afb71a3389463/98378395703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae9a65dc41445c17b2d98964ad378423/zixezabejudapuxaduzaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fab509b314---91441149062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa698901aa---lifilivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779af689093---88482742060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2462318a17469c8188a29713c9f5a590/boxugafezeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766587774af---94376870601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3e1f8c53f---16395174352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msoqko2q0nsan77gt56bi5pnb1/mudawobujane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/67828631722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boa750aj831eabio3mdngfkjdu/62312029957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ib+physics+simple+harmonic+motion+worksheetPDF 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAF 5508 bytes
SHA-256: d47e32b1cf0688822542f5ac822e1febc986f3b40256cb87633fbf413452feb4
font_01_sfnt_off00010056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10056 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 4bd22fbac354c1d6261fa8157ca211261c7c446f33c29e91a861bc6c8eb1a030