Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 260dd05adf4756af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 14:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dd0af4318ac9423627f30bfdaf65d4ef SHA-1: 8b7e718e03854b478ac029bbc4479dc096346ca6 SHA-256: 260dd05adf4756afbed0ce63e25a5f4c835947013636b2a2012d667c3a42ad9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, disguised as a free download for a literature book. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of link farms suggests a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+abc+of+english+literature+by+mofizar+rahman+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd47d8904091c37acf4c6e0944d51844/1049604627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f252ed1dc8---votojituvewixiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d5436be90---babotifubopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/16040871600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62798cc10e3e44388e0456b063c9aa86/13123109860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b4e2e42c---zipelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44193736ec---81494974232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d39138cfc5b6122cb43a927da8bb3f83/41017757446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/kudogasuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ce79b4e9c468d7ebb568e680492948/kadatumepexozonobilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdd9672678---xaxugebezinevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443257bbcfbe6087ca6f9c5633b946f5/meneruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/99164264381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile/%5C/57816548414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/35513883211.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC7 5940 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4d56a57a857123d4410e62288ef20bebf38862ed3ad327b490ea8ac6509a51
font_01_sfnt_off0000feef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEF 12268 bytes
SHA-256: f1b209e3540a6894f7801d0b6d03b9378b2c15076f4af060cc7d2d4a9921ae98
font_02_sfnt_off00012455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12455 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0b8e52d85acc74ab5f4505e858d1965a4ee1d1d5797dd6e1c12f54b5ca9d5d0b