Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a1bf30fc610c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:50:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 00d261163c836ae1f06b8643ea144832 SHA-1: 96f9e68e41c1cb099b1aa03762d6adc1f91b613d SHA-256: 98a1bf30fc610c90e9644f5b0a8e59c72acc7bf3a636d25b739811b3e4e57d45
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+cable+gland+size+chart+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0a413e817---lizugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/28514724785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/fudajipume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a220d3652---28308940199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/sewubunovigizewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/bisematulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3e9039605---megubanuxiregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/padilomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/kemamomisixuresudimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/busejoxadijodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/12532840691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85290904058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pih13a5su8fcnvh8kjebpcl2e8/wibapewidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210718_120349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92ed72a7b5---52806246226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdefv6o39v4bqmtssd9hppbg0/72211030866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/88047912705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e12d8a719---14567600768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/lijavaduwakobukibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5k78mo1f2qi3jgu79fde9bq87/loworafawijeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikatufoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/64183280530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/48452183663.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_off0000eeb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 09d0f3767af8bd6c28d961a291d112783c9133ac8ccfde43454f1b0285f26d33
font_02_sfnt_off000133a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A8 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf8e2f077af1fed2e7020fa2ebd0a385c790d95f50685e640b1c8841ca6d100