Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0ee9c4a25c5099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 21:50:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3f4472c2088e6df6e3b530dac227c8f5 SHA-1: 97ab0c159ae9bba6e10ed7a7eeb2f294084ed3ca SHA-256: 2a0ee9c4a25c50990acb00820d2595a62ed9295787020d053b5a5a5d3c73ed33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm designed to redirect users to various compromised WordPress sites, masquerading as a worksheet answer key. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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 http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijomafazedemujupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmtuks9489pe2l04u05r0fkfhe/tuboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu947vitqeittjjbjpaqefkls5/jofojogasovavowogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31cf39007808d9bb8862f04cd4e2eb6e/jufikizuxalawavamojobeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/88174588672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd03a441e6---7110781111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886af56fafb---69149449747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4beaef23c---gofosuvivitamagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a689c9975c8---tarawuliximifetifiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609466af3b2cf---jovuberelinupelidakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45bab0a02806c124d6124544c418ef02/sudaxokeniriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgiubad5vun1rf54k673b05fgr/44530426468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f917d6c196324cdc42e70eb4d251b1/fopuzilepizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/xuvominubovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/kepuxutominu.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=csi+wildlife+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off00010760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10760 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 01ef03c666450f010a1e00f3095f41e2e480c4d1498473257b2b5ab5f1c76965
font_01_sfnt_off000118f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F7 11228 bytes
SHA-256: fa0a1739a0e06342b9c62d657ec9771b9825fe8f52385f71126fbf2a4dfce0e3