Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94f8b7a0851e8930…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fcfae99363d131da92cd878fe6af947a SHA-1: afaa5fa470954709b65ea99c2536bbf9bdaacb10 SHA-256: 94f8b7a0851e89301c7ce989b96b8eed336ca160f1f12f561f51a1ea033c185c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations hosting PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'reading comprehension in past tense' and includes a call-to-action, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+in+past+tense PDF link annotation
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bb9e21165---63251481259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc65eb178591e24fd84836943a0f63bd/12119583342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077be1e5a049---63128127090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1dd965f79---buvuritumunupenabuxozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9c8c8caf7ff3e86e9e4b3fc0dfdcac/rovofuxilotolikanupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e82c0ef52---zuwusoxiretisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1d71f46ef838511978ebe34f3e8302/kopijojikanemuwobutuxidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/fuduvuzakolajalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076efa63bf4d---47402059257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1720f2326c---75464825272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8eb9ee16b---9983799179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f718242cc9643c421357bded58b809/79230253031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a1d70450f---37545991165.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_off00014699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14699 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 1e7e7de3fded634147b735198b9889b3354b70bde2802326b013a7a40ae6988b
font_01_sfnt_off0001590a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1590A 11108 bytes
SHA-256: f78a52dbbba30f7a855643b774ecf8c4a4db2c9912da3f4ad553d89d4bc49b91