Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 409f01765668f89d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 08:50:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 80e1c205bae82310d14bb344a802fe69 SHA-1: 24ae32b4d370733531e3287c0096a643226249be SHA-256: 409f01765668f89d42c8b16fd40e883fb54fce4fe06e54aaa3241e893eb5e926
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, presenting itself as a "solution manual" to entice users. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cengel+fluid+mechanics+solution+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3484348d1---zugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e0ad8f2c8---21862522444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bebe4e00cdf---30624190312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rp09hd6i2bkea45bjvv78bb8q/69117716460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/81481454828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklasik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52319170221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bbdb1ae53---66986483602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/82742655598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331204bf9b83f849b5abbfe72cf75c34/89076849402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/rumatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e6e01464fe98a1799cb10f3733b6d72/6506718808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/sofiximoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f142be0b2e---46402088669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B8 5972 bytes
SHA-256: 1443c2a55470b8222c1d837556229abf4a15db99bb71aff768274cd16f510252
font_01_sfnt_off000102de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DE 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 234f2910b8c2820b37f33208879ff540e97ea2b42e85fa5f0bc121c060384c3a
font_02_sfnt_off00011492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11492 11848 bytes
SHA-256: dcbb7e3afe0a1d86a1a22a1bce7f162cc00889a766adc5cc21224ef18139d2b0