Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b1bee133ae81a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 95078852bfcd271869f5d6755c1c85df SHA-1: fcede489e5f3da96381762ae0a93df273c34e34a SHA-256: 9b1bee133ae81a709897482933c6f25591dad0aea5eff05094d6383a979311b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'quantitative aptitude test', which is likely a pretext to drive users to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quantitative+aptitude+test+by+nk+singh PDF link annotation
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0gp11e6j91ullp5a551brl640/12549122201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc7d53e1fb4a6d1dfae81ea3d2f25e3/25742080989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/bidepelazegilopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e502b95f9---ruwagiwarikezewekuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc3a446139---42911256825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b64e5ed6fb1f4ed567bd3164e0e5db/muliwedetamesuwozefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/90262038482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/favunejosonenokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64ba7ca926---27024330501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12b398e25f89a8dd7fe78647416a4c7/12050741138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afddf0a459---27538412825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/rekixalatasujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcd33dfc61---surefebutanurasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/89222612469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/061a49dbc0a4896d25f8a6b618955a63/54951103456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609414e0212c7---pewapel.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_off0000ac4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC4F 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 430bead6ace2185414c49ed7202743a117fe0053461cfe008cc57e2859b2c345
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF1A 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 6237b7b995eb68c9321ea63b934270883b3b85507e0427fac4380c68d2e096a8