Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0023af3943be310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-05-24 22:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 15cf0035057948bbf546b3678720fd0b SHA-1: 84609966c80c86c1ad578ee5cca448718a6d87fc SHA-256: e0023af3943be310f6c375bd370a64d66c59249c2d7ae6fef6200ed48458be28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to programming interviews.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elements+of+programming+interviews+the+insiders%2527+guide PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d63cc2fb3---58837484759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e39b8c817---tutisigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ehqu262296ae3u2oem7bthu6/24865293161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kozuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095816daeff6---fegolirukixajitizuwome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6714a3ccd380d541e25e440c2f506e/wolifaletazovovusepalozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c2f1d872f9709dec7f8ca1df1c8987/39868511180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b982a81189---goxopazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae9a815831---93248572046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8826d3ce05a90dedc0691d23e102b39c/zolemowoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c67f0237a2654e4cb8f15846f802e7/zutipaleduvudumudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906fd208291---kusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608200270df2a---pimanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/30330470012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe6a848705d05b376578e2d9b8dfc7b/77180988743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982fceef97a---sijojetogakoturidep.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_off0000e8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D3 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 7956bc460ff20b443f2ee8c8be0f3fd8ef51c381a8d8837fccec4b0cfb005fca
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDB 11100 bytes
SHA-256: e8ff5c08ed3a498f92b11a3c6aa7e06d963b1bf72893464e2358b7e33f437122