Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb2ed8337858db60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:43:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: afee172c44130f6b9ac7b7f1fffc61ef SHA-1: d19b5b29f8a9069df60f4a4ec5f5691622893c7d SHA-256: fb2ed8337858db6065cde2f016d398cdb7b3602a4ea57c0aa092cfc4c4335c90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document's deceptive title, "Polynomial word problems answer key," serves as a lure to encourage users to click on the embedded links.

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=polynomial+word+problems+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/diwuwodazatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebb60ab58a---kupovesexovadepako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19c2274de9---33876024020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/67196558960aa74232b7b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/81190362609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076436e7f66d---xazemobazukokedadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/wetefatikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2c070260d9be7860dc4ad981c4d8b9/gojezonijematug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/29260026904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/nodimigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e616b7f0f60af3534d88c6b189a18fee/336772962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/sulemulirafovivimaxapawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/bibivafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/levegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/18568559512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsolyajuhasz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumavopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608012a32cd94---8096108199.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B1 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 3eb268cceb717a22b6a69010db9c71a1d33f8328b2e60a2ef32ef142847bcb7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5F 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 3f4cda3ac9c1e90496a85001e3eb6abca35bedd1875470ea3ec78134fc65e764
font_02_sfnt_off0001212f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212F 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501