Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98400e08cb0d28ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ec02ef6b1c15560154bba911c3da3ad6 SHA-1: 0b3ce3896954559a0ec5f1a80b9284d2241d7fb3 SHA-256: 98400e08cb0d28aef365081f0fe83c656474ec83e8289eb97ff63221aad92c9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ClamAV detection suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/24336022775.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://valentine.tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/36254813296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/39918051616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/26929346593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/74838790671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/48314138901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/1623881393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mocphatreal.com/assets/images/ckfinder/files/25847633496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/kadupakoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c84145d1f---nepujezagibebubeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://r4binsh4h9-att.com/contents/files/gedawepivabejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109191521428177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137eb3ebd93f---72435420146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/15682914296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454e868844471c9c65ed53fda1440ef3/jenusunapukasaketawopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministryofrum.com/memlogos/file/kodoniker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/lakazevenabibotunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/13591736897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/23142859175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altsovmun.ru/userfiles/file/fobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73782298907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c2e8c07f5---11208542785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/vozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hd+sky+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 94416f3e64bdce8fbf26d538054e3e2112ec1b35e3b23ffba02cd0b0bcb22407
font_01_sfnt_off00010447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10447 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5E 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 93972885523c222ef4a15a283436d06ea335e2bc0a4010021dafee2a1538e373