Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dba413091fc34202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-08 11:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 65107a741561d1925fe30001851f75ce SHA-1: cf6123d86e6111b61646ba9e2f1967a650830712 SHA-256: dba413091fc34202618c17077aec762a6e377205727d1a4f9994138e1a8027c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The document's content, including the title 'Objective pet student's book with answers pdf download', suggests a phishing or scam attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=objective+pet+student%2527s+book+with+answers+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/xavileseliveresiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/tekeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/12354525749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f8cf1ef98d26bc8252930799ec34ec/90833003997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa7fdbc432437437fd47dbfb35e304e/46452577216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd128dfb20---loxaxijiwosewulivupelefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/leridopezudarinasusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/4223133928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bs8ev4pgvv7cm09103ri30p11/mowusesijisironikunopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857ca4a2ea3---27284379027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/79571220047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609251f239274---46668271053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/fosudawari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2665e4da8a53974811a3108bae5d91d5/fekotaxoxirowifogurapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5216ca14c040e12b92b67c479882ec7d/wujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac419f34ceb---vaferufujajumakokaduvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ab2facc29---83579707978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/40944365055.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_off0000da2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2B 5736 bytes
SHA-256: e4e128da291577b09e0b1fa7b975380d0d5943b6718430299b1de936736747d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000edce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCE 13228 bytes
SHA-256: ab4594f11a66868352aaef524f53a75743b4855d4a709aaad682cab41f166f3f