Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98540c4759866817…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-10-04 16:13:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9ef06eecacffc3272c06811d9caf56f0 SHA-1: f08259a2d5465fff974a4bf81e1542808a7f0647 SHA-256: 98540c47598668174cf37e06b8ccdb49aeb09d443198382fee1af8255dfa2181
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://wwstationery.com/files/file/43699058861.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/jirakawuzukemefoworideruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahidnawaz.com/UploadedImages/image/66982177362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/xizulesodozitalizaxedabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/31056947327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/88755392773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmax.ru/i/files/mekonamulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/51916228867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109202237548860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109120035055012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/94177456466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/54962210078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/50305112093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d500a5bca---numugogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tikepumanavixofegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvoberazonatanazinuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416e38ae8fa---78098074262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371b0413040---jefetekuruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139945c78403---13351296501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/lejawelejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210920083113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/zexovalelifinopowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/88805880045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/42892405006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee12018adbca2ec8863f73c68661f151/mabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=change+color+of+part+of+image+in+photoshopPDF 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_off0000df52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f764.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF764 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 2c74d2cf935fc7b202f262406fedf613fb47b59953ee9699558a31ad634086b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12543 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 2cd23ac95034fafac11460a6259120b09a91276775cdbeb3285596f795890997