Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a1f132b7a7732f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 09:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: fc9299009dc5ec5a169e871a5d76d0d4 SHA-1: a8ef5775dc5c79d1aebb5d673d920e33d71b5280 SHA-256: 98a1f132b7a7732ff821e3f45da4e088cdb8c88eb357b13cac2cb9562a54ce7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9997

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+minecraft+map+pe PDF link annotation
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/nevexamuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/mozatebepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eda5b8849---19427988111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/141681417da41462842eeb82a9ad97fb/21794159995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/barotodewupajobigiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ddd8f79879b08cacf6c5da8cfe335b/85815800297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibv007ubestfqe1dp2naj6o1f6/75141697554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9fec36e98---39863332992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607817567bd4a---fedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5927136223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c9522cc1d7bcff09015d78439d93a3/29155461422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/jenomavosonororox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cbeb55605---derufudebidixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afb4292f26---82270348542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/22053104232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012b5b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12B5B 20556 bytes
SHA-256: ea37ca2d183299686ded46a2bb10624fa3ffbc5809b89201a054bc36791f8f56
font_00_sfnt_off0000e794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE794 5292 bytes
SHA-256: aec71a75e65e5a520bc5194943051706a623791eba0f2f506eb1e4c6da9f754d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98C 22292 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd126b9cb56a73717da5d1be782683cd95f46219575312e2336150781bd0079