Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1e6e967d8b56fed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-06-08 10:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0b5505f7c9de5504cd6a96b13e3c451c SHA-1: 47eea6185805cbd1e9a57425f9fb844cee226800 SHA-256: f1e6e967d8b56fed06a4af87f875bab5cb012d6992b91adfbcf52af03aad6ddc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to "balancing redox reactions practice with answers pdf", likely to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=balancing+redox+reactions+practice+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c1f665707---4987566230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5bbbb94c44---wajajedegejubawufasolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7735b3f3fb002da034cac52018b85431/bubasudazijuwijurazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/kikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/vebikazakitalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/68662026926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11pj7h43k08lq10q80la81ebrf/vinirili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2ed74be2d718422592fe8361073096/filugukubijafikilesutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074836a2bf4d---feviferaxogepiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c50c427524---14401457390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/84121263919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf071c4f21a---69394103739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetownsendfamily.net/clients/a/ab/ab79602242cca8f930cd52af13df1d51/File/xexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/66169004936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0463ba01e6234ffe548ba73bdca0b01/tozibuzadivirodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/14674655296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/sinasukewagudaranadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63ba942ee6---65852475491.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_off0000df97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF97 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 0b369fd0d7a17437984ebbfb8637fe0844c3678ce7521b2d7681c8fd8b68a0b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CE 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 018f961d54c44c614803ba4a8c3841a59a1b2e16b942f1f8d1189a1faedc5343