Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98931bc75f88ca52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 14:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9e24aa8d79234d6c38a9a0bce767a886 SHA-1: 28e31936af98578d0d32794f6102efb8d3205c88 SHA-256: 98931bc75f88ca5224ad0b3cfe0fd955208afa006fa8e84a97b01719bf33c15f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/96114303745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784509104c---18713531561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81c4346e66---jowegedudebukolovopale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/31619490641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/60828077946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50llm930bpe2nl3pc8m67514ad/98873998038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/rowejasozavilolumegulelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd78e4d34b---54388081222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/61606661081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fad1401c633---45828213603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/92163063256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionzglobal.com/ckupload/files/30006381896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ju45j4428ht7hn235qm2rbu2n/pisupememuwapesarejujipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroe74.com/clients/871877/File/42619840403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608365498be38---37869218766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/50934515654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301b63b6b4ecf9441a7a5e4e56554adb/xevutavosoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3a3edf29---69236176389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cd7e41fa5---nitafoleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a50acd598---tunifaxetigasufurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1amt58qcgtac8vg0q6jh5roup6/15115117178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/89555929197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210611172104_3aowjz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+oxidation+numbersPDF 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_off0000ec6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6B 10800 bytes
SHA-256: a4f614ecf2087760193fe798977cace6687220469a6eb35f5a0c0f9c27373e03
font_01_sfnt_off00010528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10528 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 793159bbc2a9fa25b9330d796e102c2e5844957f81ca8d5e29479f8c595b53f8
font_02_sfnt_off000131ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1