Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ece36444c036043…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-23 06:42:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a182e62908f85ad81654408df95df983 SHA-1: a5e98debbebe23431d188e16ce875ee25b2907ba SHA-256: 9ece36444c036043299c583a0427cd03ef3d42a971625cc9a944e5a25b864597
164 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. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to trivia questions, likely serving as a lure to disguise the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a640843614a---79699400292.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/43736471263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/kitotodafozagavujojurara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e672564561---nepati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/wavifefuvoboxitalazuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/livipinowewafuzivajumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda5ebbc93d04e721072a7924ede90ef/35300397934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553ct4m48t8157jjo4dmh8o8g5/55937352884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86415ef69f6647a3a29ead6152144a13/beretegavomafinajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/suwojigudojudezapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/kakebinosibojotutopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/14131973954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bdea600d47928163f3c10c3c4176b1/bebesupajuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c073bfec6fa---63459527978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=veterans+day+trivia+questions+and+answers+printablePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dc7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7F 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 7a785d5e3986bd22dc08e702c52fd22178abb297c647ca6fa1433fd537de98a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1C 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 2b474f182c60739b9ee0c48ce06ac724ce85b3bed9e27b890dc03adfeadf9fdb