Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61398f98921a8937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-11 03:21:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 09b645d08fdbab4dfa2ae2c7d7e6e495 SHA-1: 4dff42d2ee2587715c2f5d7a44aaaf9984782633 SHA-256: 61398f98921a8937caac2b2ebddc5b20a8aa8e93fbe8ccbd022fbb88df2cf845
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 links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational materials, likely to trick users into visiting these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recognising+graphs+gcse+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3049df22f2b072a89b1efc7ee67802a0/mutesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7a25bbcf1---nivufevomamowimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b06e57c6---87123116026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/dazuvumotaliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9184051ce---81551545168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/10994019751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210428220505111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/67951287346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/daves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2ea29d7808737beea4e57b9af3d696/pavuvipije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ef94b7caaf698c3b6adbe7a9c131d3/21653308234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aec623b73c---xetuxuwerunuximiwatire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06179b4e4f31426f199762165d530713/lukirufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5276997413f4572eee5e82c3c00db7b5/46234812699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a6092d9da---dafoxa.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_off0000e3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F0 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd2d8f17a2f42791ca9141c892ac13c61a7c4da8f840f2770a1571d4ebb44e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62A 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 68ce8bc50e78d53fcb2c9bfb79281ab647dba7e89c9632dd9925bb865b8cbf09