Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f9ae74cc9623f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-06-06 21:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2e6f213fa6f74d55098222d396814522 SHA-1: 66b975df8a74595bcb051431ac56397fcef470ba SHA-256: a6f9ae74cc9623f008399694919ff5ee3476c972c6d49388cbf7c4e95ccac38d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous external links, including one pointing to 'https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stokes+law+and+terminal+velocity+ppt', suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links hosted on compromised WordPress sites further supports its role as a lure for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stokes+law+and+terminal+velocity+ppt PDF link annotation
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39fcc99820---77241591087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d66b93c221---fezuxerorolenajewapaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768b5cc840c---53054988995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64aaac295420895a993b636e3e43c9e1/befebafawubamurusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f08fe74859---58320817261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/41647399585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/83443125221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/8615828669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sn6korjbehms2ih61pkvadmjca/89710452647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/93611619666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fatozeruwetokevule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a497ad6c0e8---56097970775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e3a076bd3---7399689646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12lh3ah9c46gv33kp8u6345tc/fudilugolukidaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/85765367867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/82614535690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/789dlcpjr3gind49emrdf86ro7/dukusitisokezaxofobiroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81B 3076 bytes
SHA-256: 53c8ccdbd2b50ec8356a74f11aeaa3b9eef2dae15d1bc8c9103be6bcd19106b1
font_01_sfnt_off0001030f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030F 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 0e85ac286802b2b291d120df2ac17c49cb29e8f49648e5ef4d16d76ac5dd8eff
font_02_sfnt_off00011581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11581 14532 bytes
SHA-256: c30a67129c97449c02f23742a408872e672cc8cba21a3a96beee94e8956e5f80
font_03_sfnt_off00014760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14760 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 0ca306fecbdcce82a3ede2b4bf611161fb6b6e0253330e579f33c838829b5bc4
font_04_sfnt_off00015f11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F11 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2