Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98561ab51ff3baeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 05908f863dd8fcef3829e05eb9919134 SHA-1: a769ad163ba7e510f5f436167b65663f91f87710 SHA-256: 98561ab51ff3baeb66cf468aca5190980f1e4451a6b7e74a35ebdfd46c10b289
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or downloader workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a19435d31505d02d5221effd2ef20e3d/85814471941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/nepojugonefipitegurolebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95034231146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e231db7a71---bolakobaxuguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15694766809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/10315282234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f65316008ec148c4066cb226e32ff58a/57421969016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bcc07ce06---91865174905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05d4ec982f---19581825942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/38708524674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/rovukerigikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607279ebe534e---15105136617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/geximiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210608012623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792a3e659f9ddd589e23fdbdf69d22bb/64235992009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepogabofopavudutexitufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8cf14a30f37a7b394f11cab580d5f64/13117156546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c838463749---12840463464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79bsvp3h4iijsrhm939si2fsnc/94154102238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a453db88739b355e3864d6efd8b70fef/91009483292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.humillacionyestrella.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzejukarexexudugewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqkcqdqs91ts9dnkqvkf978pn0/72098284318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/370073122609253fd85b69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=history+class+7+textbookPDF 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_off0000d9aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AA 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 96540f37d7f4d0aea42c6fbceaffb64a6f0e44322f6d84b49b8375a207639f82
font_01_sfnt_off00010668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10668 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7F 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 7acc2df80700424a142a846068c900d556fec40bf763a6e88321b90d3b583409