Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca9f3e172c7571f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-05-06 17:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2ddc808802de8fb60e19737a76f6edf8 SHA-1: 17091b4c88165e48533ed5a0352f4052c198f56e SHA-256: 3ca9f3e172c7571f7374f99e03cdc33312be2535cf587ec2484312d2cc5879ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a high heuristic score for compromised CMS upload links and link farms. The document body suggests a lure related to academic results, and numerous embedded URLs point to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

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://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49313ba419abcaf36544661d15b4de1c/56741151315.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163caa156732d11353d55ec1f3dfed5f/24020039266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074724721dfb---vaxixopuvedofadoxibaninip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/dukatamibipifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b28dfd267d---44752024275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0d36587ae35239d640d8a808a972d0/davimuzewoloxekulajegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802537dba67---19329693663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa66cb8f5f---6339304728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de57cafea12963a4a2fb28228666dce2/91802089985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751e5194ab4---zesupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8b9v11jul50c185846a0195l3/wotoxevuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7869cb0e789e450936967b6efe005277/viwejevapizezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rciskjfskq7b1njlno64l3b19g/buwopelatige.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/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+topper+2019+class+10+marksheetPDF 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_off0000d72c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72C 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd8519a08c791b5ebce7463cdcfda00302f09ee43b98ed80d83e18bc050b37c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E6 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 503c22b8fe2962c60db3f216c65d0e43a1ddd07aeebcf9b73885dbec6894540f
font_02_sfnt_off00010fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c