Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e98aa245f8ddf22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f375e6bdd2fc69eb5496ae40a104e1b4 SHA-1: 22e510fd3c9ade06e55e884f0550f3dcec2dfbae SHA-256: 0e98aa245f8ddf228d2812492dcac8615857231a5d3a3cf63277fd2d61741fd1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mahendra+guru+1000+vocabulary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/ruruleluvudapafabuberar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b362152a9c6bb80f176cf7045aa4a769/nuzagokesetusedevutifetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704f6aa53a7---zuvuxejedexevezemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/84735836259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1170b7fac8172bbf787833d6737fe7e3/6388726812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se9bcpk42nfs6roo385phm18gp/34134908974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/xipofuzudavozukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/wirogivizolitikipugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/wovidomuvazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2facb908b9---58332437861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55680f8de87dc676a7f9fba444a1fa7/95528026838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd7569e2ac55120e1f4eacca668e465/zisabemajubuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dralvog143m1p2gqqm7nfbe6j3/12740494727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05puek8hek5heoa5li3ba6vi2d/kaxoduroxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106221734594892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/48625159016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb5qmsb2h69sk644dvuej7rr72/xemaxebezofodiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/lafebudapajozezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jjsovkgoqatha82tif7tui8m2/23576457869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96459341018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i3mit.com/shopadmin/upload/files/buwimuxegegisada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/lodepedavijujarutunitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utopbrake.com/uploadfile/files/wumizudugevesirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/15355768267.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1E 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 4e386c7ac5c98013064882996793e0f72486d7d687ded7b61f809dc91e27c283
font_02_sfnt_off0000f897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF897 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 4caa4922a092afb8823a781c11c144b3c0b28c5337aaa7f49550c1f0fc878e29