Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73fc4822a6a96977…

MALICIOUS

PDF

251.2 KB Created: 2021-05-07 18:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: bc49bc6cabcdc58d6141cb98c96a4d12 SHA-1: 8775a52b8db8a7140f72525fe426d9b25e2f5469 SHA-256: 73fc4822a6a96977692a9c8d2a82656027b3af32040a6987babefc2087f30f8f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational materials, directing users to external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9814

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2014+marshall+cavendish+education+pte+ltd+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093532c3e2a3---27467787069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5f6qne027iu16f9jda0ifo24f/26797858086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401f8cbff6---logudexemewesejejozowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483ae13ef351e360e8fea23ae50600cc/buwaxegiwowotege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071547e17a2c---vivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445a9a152c---rasirokutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079565d13bd7---94487634228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va4ba19ed8jme7j8flvop90pn4/devefidodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf7q4roguuh3ms23i4shcgc6up/bugubewitodipobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c649253afe84b828c578895695af6593/2602954159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fcc6be14b---zoriwadimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0vceii95oqm665b2icfen3aeu/nekaribesisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10cfd81a7fb031a6d51188121a5a7d4/sonovebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/33655759265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00033085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x33085 1908 bytes
SHA-256: a0d3edb6b9db4577e35bd0453ce056102951e227b5185e1aa48c2601e5ffbb24
font_01_sfnt_off0003395b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3395B 19272 bytes
SHA-256: ac6c4c414e7309788d36db532782f56a9baf007eecfe35cb92bfb184fe46088d
font_02_sfnt_off00037566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x37566 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 2769714bbae9e12ead978fe50895999e4fed8269a0ce2c3a2647b0b033bbd2b9
font_03_sfnt_off00038904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x38904 2472 bytes
SHA-256: 006737aa50428f7603da2f13cc438c64f3a424b5cf9304e1e1965921c3386785
font_04_sfnt_off0003933d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3933D 14772 bytes
SHA-256: 5221672d5d81a3ee3574f4500278106333f113055fb011cc6e3b0bb1dcb39bf7
font_05_sfnt_off0003c3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3C3AB 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc43b64a20ed31e4b26ec2ed9708857dd5aac59d74da13492e66f7e9a29020e