Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98095dc80c1e07d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-05-16 07:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 133d1927f478e3d9555a52dcf59b6324 SHA-1: 31f017b964b438dc10b081b5bdd49b61094e3085 SHA-256: 98095dc80c1e07d7e121d78ad5dc8708c00afaa8c266291921b0e89eda4ce42a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URI heuristics and the link farm detection strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c463f8467bbedc669d017547ef6c22/63437560855.pdf
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72005rakg4pkrk8fasdtuhqhn4/bagazuropotegonuzuka.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7c1ea54e---jodoxapunumako.pdf
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/990fbc81f2854f5f1023a39fceffceda/98872794929.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbc90ed1hasv1pavc9gurp77i0/29279710507.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b81957b09---73184665884.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608863070f38d---17191669475.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca31f9003c---26831341997.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c50c6117b3---94475538171.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083942b800f4---83873654062.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d49c28cf7ec94f0c6ecdf99b9ca796/gukulawinogupexusizab.pdf
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/32871367028.pdf
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dazukibat.pdf
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/bipakojiguduwubobodeg.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607372699879b---41155650022.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a73fd9219ea6f61b12336d818cc9467/10358515836.pdf
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58c642231---tidevivifesunup.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=significado+de+colision+en+informatica
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d05f.bin
909b955ffd4c14a6f5774463953e1986f8c69b370d3cc7fa38ae6a3260b0ae02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05F 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d4.bin
810213df96824188b83ecf0419f980076842c65e6e9f8c5c9e8b5445b5a11875
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D4 11716 bytes