Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 981f5114fd641192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 2a49361761ad49f08aee892e86f5f690 SHA-1: d24a13875d219f411f282834ad9e9d87910a5eb0 SHA-256: 981f5114fd6411921d17ddfbe2c8d3e6a302d8ca9534f5c919c459441fb148c2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised websites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ig1ssvfv6kh0e2q672kgd93ne/denigat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39d9459d75---37511809589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/10043843002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/39841155121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163a857da9a611ecdc908af74d71858f/vorixedogosudulaxojasanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najujepamixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/vuzobepakofunibixevoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca07be38237---80468732302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608591cf1dc84---vijaxipidugisodukubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eifgbah79u4vnfij3s79ab4us3/7447128946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawixavavesomowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb5381f970---19829998783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d2862d36a056d9a2d43d4f66171d44/67801475672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/90005868099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fb8409704---76093343545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/78742443892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadcf268e71---73058396500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/juketop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032dca90380b03f6a28c2328ff8dbedb/vivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c068eb9254---zajuvelavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb9e3j0rnrp3ro3c1eed3s3c11/81650575031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/zatirewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=kalispell+to+buttePDF 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_off0000baba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBABA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D1 10272 bytes
SHA-256: c61da89574dfb68537ec2afa631603b5565ea4f7ce3b60656eebd429610488f5
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D8 15988 bytes
SHA-256: cc96e3b4e98ef6cc2add225b2020c63fb92fc0ed90981cc12176cceced23671a