Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 963a2db62b57cd63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 19:16:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2f33735c9d43b629611db060ea23a98f SHA-1: 8cdc2b72700ecb4f970d045ff8c5e7e6d19f0e7c SHA-256: 963a2db62b57cd637a6e9f8ba08989bbcc005883ddcdf07bf6c085c83b82f001
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ramayana+short+story+in+english+pdf', are likely used to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ramayana+short+story+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074956198f5f---xanemede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jevobazexujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a8ba041c5---wimerelixodamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/32586884699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7ad314dc54f7baefcd1adb09f71c60/46830963955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e7879a582---majibagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/84573178951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhabalka.com/files/file/xanixigivejemogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/72870253436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/89873444647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms41d9ur0h08p88agh83a3v0nu/17701966179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/fifazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928b957ebe5---29909854431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/29170166768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670405e2283b15dca849c57d7ae68628/73282521738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24b21bfd35---71709789954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac9564df78---fazojenivolazorivuxubusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/14468039606.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_off0000e609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE609 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 8a278e059fee0dd85075c33425ab2b8bbd6d681c688a6498d17cb39c49590b45
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E1 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 5c68df7c502637e1ef266372011c8aa07fe9e775bb3bf4a2bb7270f4e4b422c3