Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c98c4fc091318fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 23:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 9bd73046e08f58869e9ebb287f9a6ca2 SHA-1: 8a32faf510dac84792560a2f6f4a319368d71f56 SHA-256: 2c98c4fc091318fea46f412f0b8b2207930242fd275b3fb864b3bc3464856092
176 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 high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, including one pointing to a raw IP address, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the use of compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting for distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://df-foundry.net/d/files/61729021423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/62649408518.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79d3caebfa---vuxuwidolasorisaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abff5d11a1f---78287597118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/76687679899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b269829a3b8039886fa6029116aba1/92840840884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/tafelekevifalikarupedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/75131040338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/6853405586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/sijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qaabddi3gja7ju2oq7o3ttmt1/7886270484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/75860442362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/jopusonalozoweminozutela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4110206ce6---64958271736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e611eab26606ecbd179fe6b0cb2f733/10356238090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15af9c332bdbd3a6af64db8bb7a9ca9c/tupapusaxowodofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/kunenubaluvojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=birthday+wishes+for+friend+gifPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE683 5380 bytes
SHA-256: a3d5a18885cf2cf040779e7725a9ffd905897086662475185e86e9cde85c7cff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E4 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 6ace3dc9ecd8e64ad9314266a888482aaff2faff492f2a008f0905cc7afb0c21