Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98005c927e2453de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 20:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9bc8e017fdd9c3975f37fdd96c0bea21 SHA-1: 28c6da103f702ce3e99f3843df973cff38cb7404 SHA-256: 98005c927e2453de57b30727c1e915a4d074850e8ef1cfe5edf40b499ec736ac
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with malicious links or potentially providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skullcandy+crusher+anc+wireless+over-ear+headphones+review PDF link annotation
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/gamojukufitakemakazunomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3365fbc345---654688390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0f499ecdc---2298910725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b14d1baa617ee1739454687383000186/fivaredoripenugusomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/56109864900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/84363108179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9fd7a0eff---83177315533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a70a189cd5---legitexifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/pafavezetojetogoxepolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1270fe6fb25fc31e28bcdfaa557143b2/zaminused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/58425395834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b3039d055---kugexefogosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/pisokovezukaxajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/60234876616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/973656214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/rulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/gabusofegimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/wamemiwuzuzabujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761699defd2---82837607783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5ijm50ls9iic6v3ac9tg8qkao/67513978853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/28606173100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///rajevukudazasenagazopaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f55736a9f---16326059075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/15372816718.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_off0000e756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE756 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 88af2d24ff7ac3f71fd9031ac293544773d5dd65c3069602a11bd753ee541f83
font_01_sfnt_off00010136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10136 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11948 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 652d722eb98afeaf293d9428455c2b08e0b1815f44b34c447b83895792e2fecb