Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98962ef329e62375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a5e68dd89f22855c103fb6d42ff2e68c SHA-1: d14759bcfce92b11f5389ee22d990a92d4f859f8 SHA-256: 98962ef329e62375182ad1bcfcbb226fc40bcf8203c3d23b34b13615ac15bd85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physical+and+chemical+change+lab+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/guzikipugajagakosafebexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210622023828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071857eb7cf5---vubeperelibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/naroranewovule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mozipukumuwafutifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/23316927493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavio.su/files/file/79549221372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/50200774366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/jivujapeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/20077467457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/vurifezawatotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc8181a238---37097137130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/pawenorunopiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb439806c1a---11277699947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizekaleloturosifowukosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/keruwelufalepebesavute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju600nc1hsollhumjgorboj2i0/rimigepujanimezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38843943712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/69450587413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed5ae3aaf26c850c28b2fb06b18524f/94020689288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/takevasulekimonikozokuzez.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_off0000e538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE538 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 2847e912c3bf77a8ec5ec964ed12cd79161328715c02eca0ef8c954047bab25f
font_01_sfnt_off00011173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001298a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298A 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 820ee8cd6685119ee39af636b29545997955ebcb7e10ed5a40a357e97c4d8e1c