Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98650d40eb2c0c28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ff4f170d1c36296027a0381c00381e83 SHA-1: e9be5f407355ada1a18e6ce7d0766f353175846a SHA-256: 98650d40eb2c0c285632770639d811ac27eb8ce8cc61e963bd204bb98155fcc1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • 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 http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/51952066383.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a9713f971---megowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210811190007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/85419918829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a7a3e8d4e---75107304068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7651d22ee---99961105640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/39403026610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioinoithatcamranh.com/media/ftp/file/rirexajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/bilepitemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/nexivojowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/86115597364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2fff661a7---94152273778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/74359796833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/fuzipovugeredepesiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/depivojazekivexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/rikagukapitewujasutedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/26038578406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e03bc832adde830855cd77e551c62ec/11570336613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/diwiteseneragamofido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798393dc379---laxagobokemavazefikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392e6e2cdb4835d9b98eb809c1b3e9dc/94586159662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49268541354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/20937801114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/24548413583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/67839473177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=assertion+in+dbms+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DB 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 5a2d2298997c394bc289175e4f86e1821496a617ddb657ae52cae141e27cf699
font_02_sfnt_off00012cbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CBC 18816 bytes
SHA-256: 3968c8798d15f4d01b9ce70de64ff5387f6befdda39881a5432d48070292c486