Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddc75f1cd73ac9f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 09:35:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0b8c92b2e1aa6659ad5dcfa974bf23ed SHA-1: 474643177b75205793cc5d0ea13adbe1b512839f SHA-256: ddc75f1cd73ac9f7b8ede4ba188b7d30d8912de5da041348a85e61810ef1611a
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 a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to IELTS exam preparation, a common tactic for phishing campaigns.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+line+graph+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7592283749c9268d4dbbc67a0163fa/zawupaxowige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/rotiwusegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cfc0f4abc379c9dc77bf6bd6b8595f/53338561849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912a762511b---gasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607318f84ad26---muzaxawidupuxopokagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58bf255d96946890d516e9bcd703e0e6/bomupiwanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782ac3d03ed---rupuresojoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722ca1be24a---47843395272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bcfa92e4e---76331020211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac77vno6o0trtc4tfef6ct8dc1/berepidararewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/makuravaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a7aa1ada81f4a57b61d39ce1af9a3a/zugebiganorutorimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gqa5hncraa8s6eeefgp6pl2nc/kanoloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086512e3d60c---55100787201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a8b51af87---74158339159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/3961715176.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_off0000ef53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF53 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 6c83c9c54e93ed81390645679769e1c8b53b0a0bc599216c280a2241a51b2dbb
font_01_sfnt_off00010100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10100 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 4fa6876e8135bcd3091e82dd84834b33273bffd63cb4fe093421324f8e18dd87