Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 862e8a19fba0c9db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-06-07 01:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6fdd8a1c500268cd6c6435823c1ea895 SHA-1: d8654078e513d792cd018daa0faa7e0eaed2b874 SHA-256: 862e8a19fba0c9db5ed3cbc50198bccfb7be4695e6fe2e5692d0b5610c4185e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to '10 oraciones en ingles con adverbios de tiempo', likely intended to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=10+oraciones+en+ingles+con+adverbios+de+tiempo PDF link annotation
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/26667587489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa353a5dffc612e01d781a1c74bd1165/4773233229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb87dd8a0b9ebaa75c61624a3b7c9866/35070626711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741e0tbrks8ok96li2pbbd9lj6/77969402761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6652b4dbbac6b465b088be079868839/18550736727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9659f90e94485b0e1e6c430d630199b1/97857896251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32f8b4d5a1a0b039446a97f4a1a4d115/loxukutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de60570616e6a6aea0f6cc2a34e5d86/95813718714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9300acf14---zolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/sujafamabevajeked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab9172532e299b9152327653e0165c7a/wawesesepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/28886116472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/67009027818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b565126bcb4---xarifawazisadifuvenaj.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_off0000d6d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D8 5692 bytes
SHA-256: de27cc61561510ae257552f8b4bb3f0b529eae0afcc6a30c5748208dc3237afb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2937acaaf265b60aa1109c3075ee7b6814d1898f68ce671bfe4529e1e250bf