Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98707a4e4ec08f10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ed6bea87478253d7353e28b21ab537dd SHA-1: 03134d86e2cd4d7811e69ec5ab762a4c244cce46 SHA-256: 98707a4e4ec08f105067fb25a3c7b3e2d2db68877aaafc00ee79c339822aa3cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded content are indicative of a malicious document, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+mail+merge+pdf+with+excel PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84fafa982a8c649e26243069c307fe7/72248547150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b427aa3a2---92987539012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39459d10eb---vamexoderoxifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ti7jko7ent4lgq8ijphn4k8vc/78472935772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e78a6415e---38735264159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774dd36f3b1---xufumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/80066958762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/vorevivefaruwabunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49596242ac86e2aca4658bb1c6d7f0a8/majovetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c67f98bf5e29695ff8070c06f5bce5/61230185117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/kusorixezuluzaxibofilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/95924683974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uk3kfdfh506m4c5gekl7sgd5ha/poruvopelevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608287509a0ef---88694896823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877cab9373c---31601839773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/31148935351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd1fdec0b4---jewipalodexepovefuxutugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098424277c89---64729053677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/71395247410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqsr21n8eaur331rcq6gpqr421/12676723120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/vososobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulufotazukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/27744447722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/79622789526.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD837 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 852681b05e93c2ec268d4aad646fc8756c3851d1ee618f943f657f2b9b7e4955
font_01_sfnt_off000104a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A2 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 2d80c06843b5d6ba4b1515e450af9874c42270bacdd94dd607ecbdfb79e27149
font_02_sfnt_off00011dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1