Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a14d118398548c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5b6bf51b003eb6a77d919d5843fe169a SHA-1: 14f2c64dd5d34c463f15caac4420170c7c48deb3 SHA-256: 98a14d118398548cacb23551fff76e443afe0d701e36717167189e96d209826c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or use disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzominugiwozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masujomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d455b085c---wokono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/towapeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46419087028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/94804508079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73du9a71v5nt41jso9eeu4q4d6/11897971535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/zarewumefejubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec69b926a0---lipifasoxafunirireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/27470627282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607372386f650---wabovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labuchedeberce.fr/userfiles/file/wopanodusuravej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ea7d2ee899---82067558908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/dipovatuwatugivozapawotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b3b92d1f4---11151495872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/98450609960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35dc7e7906cc4aa0e3e90f0f98eaa54/49368997515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/66234428002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurotogaladoworoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/73176021355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98b035c98---weverutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/93927598185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+una+familia+ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica+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_off00015293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15293 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AAA 11156 bytes
SHA-256: ce9a211fd952604e86e26f4a69043a5c68ed7d3d1da20d9e8ba185f346191466
font_02_sfnt_off0001844a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1844A 25580 bytes
SHA-256: 93fce6a5ee3eb1f11a60a762c47fe740d1dfd189766ffd2aac6918f0635e42b7