Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98785630d845b308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dc64cd4f20042dd95d28bec22d0a0805 SHA-1: bd2b05e32833458ca2e7c635a5c4d39bd94c0d4b SHA-256: 98785630d845b30851dece89addd76df367e1121f1332efd251cfaaa58fcaf0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised websites, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection confirming maliciousness. The embedded URLs, such as http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7ee143d4b---mosalogazuvoki.pdf, suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/5762706607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/86271095987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranoxogikoxigozefepabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b427203cf1f4ad3239800ea5c254214d/41818838419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58040280134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356d501d99d2e8f7ad55a48dc1d724b4/somusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/kanejulukajavesutumolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/59221088120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130703621ca8---bimevedekugiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/nutijefofutuxudujiwupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907102847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/46645560157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7ee143d4b---mosalogazuvoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132090fec9ac---45568358139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916153727821774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109161806364733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyztyle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wurujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/11974767872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/sibeduzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428f5daff3e---86201753879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/labotudaxuzejijiwenataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/50707732536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613799c0a1cd6---1308240551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=kamasutra+kannada+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_off0000be03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE03 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 28e04f6190bfca49fc56b7a764c4631f1b55daadad8663a5efed3466c19deaf8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC7 20408 bytes
SHA-256: bda6d2760c3e83863b5d0e81f6dd632f4cb292dcb56b580c0827c99ed387cf4c