Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2e413228a4c145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-06-17 08:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e01ef0e3384f005f2179407dc9fe2801 SHA-1: c9b24131610f83bae2b20bf4e636680b6d817a71 SHA-256: cd2e413228a4c14519f09b7a5a661ff50dbc67402050ee946643017eae7c3838
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to academic test answers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+algebra+2+chapter+7+mid+chapter+test+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0a0b5c5b3---rezowubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/teujo1i48i3rmcsko5q188u1t2/36649438800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195qtitfg4462esltmk8hk9jks/33639293255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862c44967c8---rusaxuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqt315lm8263h8f2apcbirnp9u/ginuguwofade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0goblgl7o68r9dq2v0p1si0en9/xomonolikoletazofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd22d34d3---13686921369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/93036911900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33aad4cfd5fb1d8f95808d9545d1f4e7/88987960760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daiqros56btvf5034jvm6if5ma/50595723529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7530e322d43d43ff5b9f55b606fc450/wuxewugomeninib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e8da0a575---68969946979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/75795234325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9td9v18mjk713utkiqspf8a7n6/legidamutitovusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddd7b2d801---4405139687.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001252b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252B 5964 bytes
SHA-256: c99b14ff75f9352bdfee955b0ac121b23ffad27672a21176ca6692c61b3548cd
font_01_sfnt_off00013963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13963 13032 bytes
SHA-256: a631c2fc2e7434abd4fcebb0c337c33f071029683754ca8f8b9907bb92f17e2b
font_02_sfnt_off0001650f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1650F 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 95461d95551f4e9b265d8d4232fd5f4cb0febb9897717199c69cc3f53af2ece0