Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e495fc304f8bf9a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.7 KB Created: 2021-06-17 05:09:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 923210e0f751b6140acbb6db35dd3acf SHA-1: 79e5ca383d5a96ba847d1b3023f99da90b822bd9 SHA-256: e495fc304f8bf9a1a0b0ca1e101d4163a2d7de22db7d786a1176d6acf3633f9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting malicious files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to downloading essential literature, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised URLs points towards a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+essential+literature+textbook PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f85f70d32---98678959241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lua84aeaj75mgncdijrj61c21t/39994882009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/66221430183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d455c17e4a---85077498599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee4dd5fb00---17089522144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e195ac793---jelikaxonitupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/wigutulefisufirofiguwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184fff5bc33a0a4cd2f72957f19a2f9c/89499640485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608599f476b8c---vuvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/dakadomegujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/jegezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/46942001195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ef2347def---mekafakopunaxexovuriwoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/wifogabotibomarujutiweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c042772cb8---nekamasurosupedixorolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f137ed483997a11b21fb74560441a87/84135728697.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_off0001a22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A22B 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 2143233ec67163b9dd0621bc75349794c52ecb7e8c45de8d976c4ab9a9c160a5
font_01_sfnt_off0001b3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B3F6 13744 bytes
SHA-256: bd59a669bb2a72f5a7094f951bfa1762dc9fa638e928b0994d524e6c2af28eb8