Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4268b18ec4b9c2eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 10:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2073234e339b01993760e082b950be9b SHA-1: d012ef1f16b8fd456f036d75748310810e158a08 SHA-256: 4268b18ec4b9c2eb2a0c32bc323bfd4472101d33217879dbdab219b0d6126b70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'picture reading worksheets for kindergarten', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picture+reading+worksheets+for+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab273fafe5d2c8f85ee0faaf02d7cf4/71271236635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcd80cce30---44236792686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/4206718651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/96806964185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e7bae5061---39621162382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f93ec75c3---pazowidamapirisesega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473fa87c481255f995b5909e7df09794/xoxedakiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4cbb3bae323b3211725f43679f296f/7051822377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/63256500820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e30119e247---92091964963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/66628983177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609526c450aff---19157115882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/juwawudodixukejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb3faabf6---sunokakomulewadovavanivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec5a242578---1099291470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b746898367f83300cb23454d2adafa3/lipakigoz.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000115cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CC 5408 bytes
SHA-256: c13bb709a1d8bd9b8740e6141bd043aaa52e89b15f86b72ee1224282d1622dd9
font_01_sfnt_off00012846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12846 11092 bytes
SHA-256: fc237da7182a94f585f75c2e0c7c3ae8c3aec2d66abbc88d3da790ba7a35f77f