Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c639254b702d1023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 01:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 964a6d9118e5ca146f83c5b827541096 SHA-1: 15bcae121387de241378911fcb21205971f4d801 SHA-256: c639254b702d1023805e8162c86cfe60cce4e53f5f6cc5a094ebcab52c2c1b1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of 'growth mindset quiz pdf' in the document body and URLs indicates a lure to entice users to click on these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=growth+mindset+quiz+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3aa5c374cc---wagadopolawerizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89e105a44a---13164133673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia258n5f9e3dsqs3tum769sont/tasarukunawokatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ef5ff0246---sejaxamomesulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd31071b05b---besapuzefurojizosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b798a8094d7---14603720689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/lapofawulijuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca221eab3dcff1b13ac92d2635ae12b/88196924251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775b0d58913---pukijuvazesotujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/lagifapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/24918029974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df4046d2f7---korozawotesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64cc06c92da907c500c63fdf103320c/pudukumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6drsbh0to486j7q2gokppj3u6/90014128581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de9d0b3a25344c0a7fa279b3432d72b9/68808598728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86256ec1240b9de213cbb9ca06840a1/retavoxugowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bct30h81n02rd92tbdmrt8jmpk/60766407622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609430ac9163c---81004769519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/8116650228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/35077053312.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_off0000ec92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC92 5340 bytes
SHA-256: e667c25f0ee7ba379e7d61f9b6b293a64cf2926818bbfcbe4474d449403e82fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAD 12048 bytes
SHA-256: 88a361bfb8b5df7c420baf34615d1468045564db7d0264e963c5559a84e26109