Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c6300df2cf7ed58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 17:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 03b41612572cb17d8a5ce9836868024a SHA-1: b84e0fdc894d76245a62c1fda657e96c4b8b79ac SHA-256: 8c6300df2cf7ed583e89701737581a67875c45e27ab9dd2e3bcf97bfe3e291ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to downloading educational materials. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=american+english+file+2+workbook+answer+key+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab5d965a8c---dufetunufotavodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/32768606375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/61362757871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/9226640418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/waritojimokuxojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/94882010198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46f8299b2e---89805526908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc09419fc89---gonigadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33pp210234fe7a3hkp94j67v5q/77013113243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ecdc98ffb---jotisurizuzazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a69d5e997a---megaxomemive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/zavesolagupajerejeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/rinewowufemorumugipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa1897a065bb6d363df6ffaaa0ccd1a1/98391838865.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_off000113d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D3 5796 bytes
SHA-256: 2dd0d161f22843390bfe1dca684b6a45a4288a7942119283da4ee6f2c0cdd019
font_01_sfnt_off00012761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12761 17320 bytes
SHA-256: d52673c85739ea39863f2c26bac9fe469709ec30a7e8a6071bd4484ae91d4064
font_02_sfnt_off00015bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BBA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176