Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc319c650da2dfd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-06-14 07:50:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cd349090aedc752bd90f20ed52e6df70 SHA-1: 63c85a6222f4f3efc80c5e446e31d03f9f2fbdef SHA-256: dc319c650da2dfd82e587d710cf3d202bf2d380b0dbdac98636d2fabfbe0a8b7
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. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure for downloading a PDF, likely containing malware, disguised as an 'analytic geometry book'. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces the malicious intent to distribute harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=analytic+geometry+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceb93a155f---81078512504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8vt6umb82r5c1ivpgine7v7g3/josulatogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq12f3ffgl1f7tqappk965ebq4/26627195710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc417423eb---83318718843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab46da8848088fb5b7a01fc32b2eca8/9833420372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/18347804814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608272576185d---684872576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4782d993---8167363416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5t4mumc9qtrr6ijs9behjtmko/loxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/pabewabadafemasojori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/nexikirofixuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0sbjp1gu0smkue3aci45tc5tdp/vuvimaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071285f4991e---19185190291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8btvojntb9ug078o9j88sj8lk6/51497185585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22fafe0936---nijosegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd3230fd43---zebiwuxidaki.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_off0000cc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC55 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 97fe4fff4b3a75d72bd80c322f2ceffcd769f373116fc9c65b4ab227b5c7f95b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7cca035bae12a40550bdd74dbfa927a33ee7d5fd2843c676f2cb59b82160fa