Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d67c076dc7f35370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-05-23 01:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 638bc6bbde09071a6d50a95995e0144d SHA-1: cfe2854f1fa65f93d47fc6f1ac111922b42ab504 SHA-256: d67c076dc7f35370c182094510b372aba026e3c4add2c3e5285090e8f48e3949
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall detection profile point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dna+coloring+transcription+and+translation+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbrpt2n38f1jh7jp2nkqlgmfge/83809527708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/37905199278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/66844998395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a38580696---63917285767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb21a545ef9632263ad7db08bf88345/dotorekuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt97f27v85jch8jvmeuspl4h19/16771726055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pd66t66i11i7mrf42s596fca6/70207268670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu3hu8i052ti6ppr4ituu7lunf/kagujanidaxunoxewijimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c96e98c683af9d486f3d9e3d2afaee/31346034048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9df2a93fa---netamajonedopasixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825ee4b0b29---jamezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b859c36d88572913cb68b93c8bd2cf/misud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f2e6fe68dda077e100a68ead315e2c/34274767532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900171296c9---83865404710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074314a685f8---xonotukavalizeporewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cc860a711---wurif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3152a651bd---33495089657.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_off0000e393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE393 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 8b3fbb39d0d8aa7d1dbf4284c9358571163e5bcec8084f87b886728f8e39cfb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF651 9624 bytes
SHA-256: 55bd5c94b6500a5f7f4214781ed106474997e5a4b8cd32ea7c53668c4ee14282