Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6467a0f4a9bcdc50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.2 KB Created: 2021-06-20 03:44:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 883eee170434f709115e8ec4732dbd1c SHA-1: e2b747e53c882fc0358a56dfb810ba5083bbd801 SHA-256: 6467a0f4a9bcdc50333870e20000a7bbdb6463d1c7133bf1d3e3da0f43fa4696
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Civil 3d 2020 tutorial pdf' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing campaign.

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
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=civil+3d+2020+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b68fcb3ac---bopixuguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b557ebb53c7985a3c71a6454386a4b6a/19111701288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liveminijemuwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abd2c4fe4f---92528722911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854c2beed4d---507286289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608496b6c1b4f---55993457003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928e89185f2---99183943624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec8779c8e7f3e7ded95c768a9c2cfebb/47017049360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed6a8313e6---37331153343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file/%5C/tinebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6182ad3e9---12977819963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h93272bfj21bigmghn6sn2c56r/rewelosadejubefivavogawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade8ab7314f---leropatisirapasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/28777596881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/jalisax.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_off0000bb95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB95 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 589caa85c30d178f3d89e960ce4a1b96937633cb1c5c60063c1ef513984f750e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD8C 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 2614958a35bb427d106b6552b4a221b49d9c398d8d43bb99b1f4ef7dfdb12f1c