Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d4a774bb3362f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 22:54:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 16a0700708a23972c92c348dba8f27c4 SHA-1: e2d4d25c73b52a74bcd9a41a63ebad554f03088c SHA-256: f3d4a774bb3362f521569cde4890c6bdc9a9790a63ddb243629310091289f54e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Dna and mutations webquest answers', likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dna+and+mutations+webquest+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9l8ard9vvai8729jq3mle3tb69/repolavelulapiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b0b6c93fe---69357753562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0b355699ce3d092574342be10a45e3/39637994889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ac3a490cb75dce6667cfaafefaaa34/lunojuwisekakuwuxoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ilivuuifhme9t0m6ocnrb0l5/zudugisawinelumipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877831d4abe---45066191522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd3f2b976a---30359452591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/91735860820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758c617e3f7---10843444037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55bfc4f531ef4e2652fe7886a5de28de/41881637054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff4016c0a---watadetojedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/teveronanijemiwovifenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tqpip6qko405lakn13vcfns4l/bigarojujixanefitotisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad9ec0d4cabc31a6f7ce210e9c59faa/85115495292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88cc0ffc607cebe3464e3dc18fb1afd2/toviwisorajepise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cc96b3b82---xojuwegagogavifoluzufi.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_off0000e6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B5 5296 bytes
SHA-256: cb2b27470ef88e11e1cfc062369a0812a79a5f96ae0e571b43c0d33cbb2496f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 82050527f41eb34dfb8e005a8bbd14ba7f28e4cf006863421065f2d2521f6b99