Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cc3e63843bc904e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 14:23:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 350d1b34b001d3ea95b1034227bc57fa SHA-1: 154121214269d0888c6c427c003fa52e43a7fe85 SHA-256: 9cc3e63843bc904e0281db784e3c4853ee72fbf2059c8bc92c73bd0802028278
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. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Nwea percentile chart 2020', indicating a potential lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links points towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious content.

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nwea+percentile+chart+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d17b6e35a2ea623ec74c1377cd40483/kilukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab844e0c0cdc3b1c22e8cbe75b437ea/zofokuwoterotaxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e92a435851---fupozakujenilavonogepebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/41323251400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084012c125f2---90779843449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8281b8141a3faad6b3db7a2fa8f6c567/994047274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o6q24a9uptro5l5qbhlpu7so2/dimisibipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d2556a80e---tisovoravefanajelelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f5d92c4dc7f82d85654a4e36264d57/25313237904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd7g6euk1tn5ik5r60ften9ong/11514438652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kasd1eucss86sfbnks2aul2oku/tagutugexuvipomapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e84c4dfa7---wutilojiziwoxoxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/84335403448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/kurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609083ee3e3c3---bozusimerevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0296f31b84---kefurabejujutege.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_off0000df26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF26 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 14cc48b93e1583b4c7098d4775ecd6a655bacb9e29092bc2a7fbeab039ada885
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D3 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 545cead2e0bce2ccbd4b06382beb1f81425f26cce9d1164b92128cceb58b402b