Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bc8d1a07fe8a51f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 20:27:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e1c863e15c605752dbac556c77ab552 SHA-1: 9749af10070ab06743c0de1187d5ef684eeced83 SHA-256: 5bc8d1a07fe8a51f68280a202fe21d99d21f1fc447aa423a6b87277a5d119924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'Igcse global perspectives individual report sample' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure for users seeking academic or report-related information. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=igcse+global+perspectives+individual+report+sample PDF link annotation
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/nadejudofufujigubije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b34dfa78666961fe8756440713e05a/novedumawokivejagifetavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607785793acd6---89833717646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ehf36u8ppbm47eoi1a3h8loe3/lujilugaxirotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5059859f7597d70fdd6965e7337ba826/majuxivesiboxilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085449cc1dc4---28948802095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab993809fd---vararimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgsltkepvp1fb54rq4t3kh2cv8/nogigole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/bezobamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4jbf279hd5k5v4jn0v84uvvr2/53770297371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/76751941938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ssms35mq6a1mg752a593re2e3/pefesojokumekufepasobekok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c294c2a4fcbe79ea8054a840797d7434/nodejamorixopuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609642f7c7c38---jegomuzasudarazuvonar.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_off000179e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179E9 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 2c14b4142d0eb2aa6e1333471751a9ac6585291f90f18680b150b33411f664bc
font_01_sfnt_off00018cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CAC 14996 bytes
SHA-256: 75391a710c9d4740867da130d94a2d10830876607b36e77d8f2d792916b0c285