Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98583e98f942c4fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c271b3ab46a9488683a719f5e813eaba SHA-1: e6443933b0fbe30b3a3893d1adf58cd5af94373e SHA-256: 98583e98f942c4fba45877ccf03150c46c7df7130e310831646b115395fb6f97
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs that act as a link farm, redirecting users through various compromised websites and potentially malicious hosts. Heuristics indicate these links are designed to obscure the final destination and leverage disposable hosting, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=t%C3%A9l%C3%A9charger+pdf+viewer PDF link annotation
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052721514415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11321229702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/28157263821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d792c4a6041---83783173762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/74669360287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffef9d50a14055cc8b0b2563caceee24/19844199072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093afff02bfb---nusilipinedalewadagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabivuzalufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/mazemuxopusewapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9e9a108b7---kininekezezekipawozubeji.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laxotoputisule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tktravel.shop/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_429A162EFA31B11A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/dewekowifonebaripuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/76302711437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/sitinadesejedezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/gevedowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/90422494393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210811_074621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomuroselemexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/baziretaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba87e36a068bbab2af47721031dda249/22401011362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/3814211904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/9104172451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1d20246bbce167142b828be59cf2c0/lolugesivoduvovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00011dbe.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11DBE 17132 bytes
SHA-256: b415af911778b2f22c1957f8a9227e4e3aedc19e310772c9d90a4ed6b6eb6898
font_00_sfnt_off0000c64d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC64D 25588 bytes
SHA-256: 5039b89fbc24292d9c514113f9a192cd59b22506c38539311d76acb78f5c6629
font_01_sfnt_off000105ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001372a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372A 10676 bytes
SHA-256: b7a9efba4ecc0850022062a93e477e67a2cb47c0bbc7a76288308602bfaf8a73