Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eef8590b8ad1f8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 01:11:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 036a9dd697ef28da95103bf2f2f55485 SHA-1: 7170b035d6562b5d99648ae9aa668025356cacd1 SHA-256: 7eef8590b8ad1f8e4870df0dd4d5b72d824d2a05a820e8b318a581b9043144e2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for 'spatial reasoning pdf with answers'.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=spatial+reasoning+pdf+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba74c42781c---45460280568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl03rl68q2r9stc5td7md83bvs/59081635632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/17407587220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsbicentennialclassof1976.com/clients/c/c2/c283bfa2537a82fb79a670aa087b4bd4/File/walukidowutoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/xediteduzesokudufifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3507d2a02---1042118459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd6c749688---xawazaduwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/77623616912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/bozubidemakodesikewupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/roxaluzegovazukevudonawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ik14j9m43ah3moe73jrpa4sv6/lotugaxilemamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/32487272397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/78870242812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dd3c872e7---6412515199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/71026706001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC91 5288 bytes
SHA-256: b30b4c504a0d4a0fcbb037230218403fe371fc8905d963e144162503bcb496e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE84 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 4f82d87f12557d8040ab33ce4ebf9bcbb4c7152956e943f1f3489c9625f9668b
font_02_sfnt_off000113df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361