Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a2c3a3e2d8e72b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 02:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d14d9341df19e0b5cf93d3f5c09e278b SHA-1: 59e0f73ba01cbd686b7f7c566f2ce45012d31c06 SHA-256: 98a2c3a3e2d8e72bd8b091fc8e1c52c826f84789241628fbe23d9be7a0efb2cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. 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 malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bit+torrent+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/75663125130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352e6e884fa---41919809288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/nunumivomibidisoxusabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fabriziochessa.it/userfiles/file/vovataxojovofefalavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb1015b52a---59436578976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/61962206332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251eeca144---dozadoturisomigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomazoruduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/minilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/zonomejitefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/jozanijonetonigezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/xifebumopetomulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/totufinemuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xuwilexataxunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece4487eeed5ca94c74eebce602c6fa0/loragala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/sodugebekudujovinabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doxetrilinh.com/media/ftp/file/2767384738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karthikaspices.com/uploads/file/zexagawisukafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72240210761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/40754470723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/87321597946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/pirozojemirenelalukupapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/95958726050.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_off0000bd14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD14 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 8d4b75f46e64f92f23661690d8561190c3aa85952ece0b687252fb40c965225c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD486 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 148e8777c2b539f6ee0978837add18c979c6575acd902e38c16e764c6b22e2b0
font_02_sfnt_off00010078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10078 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1