Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 570ebaed598b9dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-20 08:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9a05c9a6d2d89a9f98fc368a60f13e76 SHA-1: 35b9f1a87eae19608589528f2ec157d4673a2c0e SHA-256: 570ebaed598b9dbfbea189d1c8f0e35b2ff5e0c408b7532b5d9e203f017dba8e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, and contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'observational study or experiment worksheet answers'. The embedded URLs point to various CMS upload directories, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ee6ca54f703658ebb3dd845bb6e4584/setiriwolowozexatasitomed.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0eb46ae54---ravevidokigadofopu.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd34303b34---kubudibojatinuxiwo.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8fcee7885---mokolugafotusosowiwi.pdf
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49200569501.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eavqbp73lvnqq2lioqsotugj1/29633658353.pdf
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/megaleg.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aae9d837ae---22308636409.pdf
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/76745628907.pdf
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/18/file/20210618_233441_147.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/29966434551.pdf
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08421743a210bc54dd7727ec000e3384/zafunikuzawanu.pdf
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0610c9d128974dd8091e79e00c8e62/64309861959.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872677275e8---96059724690.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=observational+study+or+experiment+worksheet+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1b1.bin
8f5e73990f16e153ccc78df2470138744a913fee79187b1a5f095ecb045f6624
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B1 5752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f529.bin
048d9c215e33522413a5bcc20b7bd7d8277900b0c41808ca4e610f66d0961bf7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF529 11144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b5b.bin
2173a1880e9f774f759393e7d0d28dda91d04d8a3eae6bea41b822770b343b90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5B 16060 bytes