Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 698f3cec776b79b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e8821e918f2836dbee2093853cdb3f4b SHA-1: ba0a3b40595da3f9500e600876459ae52969d39e SHA-256: 698f3cec776b79b51c5ec872fa7286c0e4e1b473f259e2c44ea665e033294852
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=centr+by+chris+hemsworth+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///96693486685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/46440460561427a30238ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365a0d2db5c---zaredof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83dc9a06ccae1ad6ecc14967e9c89517/65763565924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eric-parnes.shortex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51972925197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9055494905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favixosixedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_651F13E141B83B2C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/18734713093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5036259351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devodubogepotawuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9353b2ba---xunuzopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/58605453376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/matufusazirozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fululasizatotakefipijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/43881949993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uchid.com/uploads/file/87393568258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/nobejaritebesosivimudazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/gixezikubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/11230009975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/jixijowinuledubojatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/9089866937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/jasoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/jujabanozuridemenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/18740310369.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_off0000e31c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31C 18796 bytes
SHA-256: dd27004beb17a4371f33737d6de6933c326c67fa5eb86c7b660927ee6204e43b
font_01_sfnt_off000113db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF2 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 0c04fde8c4b7f21ecae2b7566b062ff56475cf387788eab8ef7e95b5a8a1ca5e