Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b1b63f38050b419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-06-06 15:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 33e85f8ffd76ea73cb3bf4985864929c SHA-1: df59d84b0c38be3b056ba2ef469c6407b6837f12 SHA-256: 9b1b63f38050b419a0a13e7f0d062caed1de80b57b311f0edf6d5ed938801396
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to educational research, likely a pretext to disguise malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a high likelihood of redirection to malicious sites for further payload delivery or credential harvesting.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+ethics+in+educational+research PDF link annotation
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93dd741d0e196d75ccf9d2633ad2f9f2/dapuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c01adc5041c2bb7db934539c7212b8e/90515248730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f9ab79d2e57ff3cfe3e0cc39189c32/61632516630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/038b2d10aada30a508e53382191f00de/34637696578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojn8f3l5rn3mcojmqbobs24h73/33369718464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/83597911466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/tigidazodotidajevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a1cc89dd7894a1c4d150c07361054c9/65856645722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhabalka.com/files/file/vapesofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2a5a48b75401aca8da4f2df46f40d47/25969424884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4pcjhqlr4ojmq0b1uf1q643pi/zedekikufopubevobuwitegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444d794570---mulifiweximokonotozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4277501d5---pusejunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607589f131613---33344585349.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_off0000cde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE4 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 9c165d6d8486a1fbe9d14b21109c6fe11de1c9658205a6199665174599c55496
font_01_sfnt_off0000df07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF07 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 13e6be3cee98979379b439ac517fde9ced9d2225bbcd56b4098cd4bc28d4cfc3