Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 968d203da2c62adb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 22:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 077ecf6bca0f09e5d46f867ed2cb7bd1 SHA-1: 2a3eec19fe608c545caa7a4759342318c0b2a37e SHA-256: 968d203da2c62adb63479fd3ba52df90f83cc10b6fbcbc574672b5012a205118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to worksheets, likely serving as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=improving+handwriting+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b530e81vr5kpgcccuamfgt24on/78170868733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kadidojadolaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/3389602630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/tedevuvodolebubeboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/73477473347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608372ee90564---zajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f5e373171b---36415814192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ef8b33a21---gupirusatavepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609234e188abe---80257725534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091685c2bac3---zenuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/87221894857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f955c19ee4---34219238228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17943a7f6f---solapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7892fa17367a760804ce60fa2df604ba/solaleviniwabobabosami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f08kg7ndrptia77uhhedtmickg/17841417964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a70667813---zataman.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C9 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 029111d74bbbaf055f49d0b817ed9e3a8396772489bf91babee4c7567f8c0f9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B0 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 332792b566ad6555f145b4d834b4d11d6e569fbc8f559d2c5325bdc19d2dfcb8
font_02_sfnt_off000106f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F7 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939