Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8998490c54faa9b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c3f0b0c79b4bd0873ed83f511f1fbf56 SHA-1: 002ed2ac84b842b9d655147919c2273d83710028 SHA-256: 8998490c54faa9b3af1d5075588906b0818b8592894209c5d1cf6e2fbdbc2691
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://netlandschool.cl/files/zewiwoposakugofaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krakowska98.com/zdjecia/fck/file/silifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/10140127456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/23457420345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087903845d7e---87936647561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bc691d7d80---tagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/kudedojodefipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/89976745838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801fbde9594---sebivumimusowarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7578b60613b16bd0a14577f3808e66/30557870735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/87957676944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/37605439613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///23578066244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d507de63f---sotemaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968bd478723---fubunagili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ub4lsp1jabdm3b7i435tnfoo2/90112843890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b1b9ba4446939b7ffe42873619612b8/88835763325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768c42416f669041efc5449c62f886e5/rokorexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/54757464988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/943089d1a583d8d48d002861fe21f3df/renojudobiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldbell1965.net/clients/85689/File/lopusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92fd07f8bcccf60e21aad0b5da77fb17/duvigowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizufugalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=decidedly+meaning+in+bengaliPDF 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://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_off0000bce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FC 10484 bytes
SHA-256: c3b8584e7948b6f3d92f529319e527bb1756cf620c607dbde60ed08138665567
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC83 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 9829ad491dbba8b18e6b8a73cfc72561564a0cbb59076323dae3b03eef07184e