Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a704ec4e6f077c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:35:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c4fd085fbfaaa0f3ce66078eb3fb4627 SHA-1: 1d8ce18ce0d2cfa7723e56f17500be272af04d7f SHA-256: 98a704ec4e6f077c9278d5d21e04d68589be051725f27927bf3beec502e3b08c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown reputation URLs strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/zevolesotixaxaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/21402083454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613061a9a8d29---68197647991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/75569375617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/vadaxedujitavaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109172158105024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spad.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/65792960847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprastoc.ro/userfiles/file/85430951234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/62383375944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/76012484213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24219501963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiliwapetolitosupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewomasonupejepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryukatsu.com/userData/board/file/sidezawijabotibogogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargologicru.com/sadm_files/nevenupetapetivibowofatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/safafematolexogawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/72189515715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1631433875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ce59e9835---85280653530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/jumufopujorikawomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/72179160415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202109160046351552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2be54cc3c48fe8b2e905172b5c7afa1/93375437672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+download+alexa+on+my+android+phonePDF 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_off0000ee11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE11 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 78e267739e3ac1ed501fccfd7c015215509ff2a544ad531f801c03436d296bf4
font_01_sfnt_off00010679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10679 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 5a344d013dad80f99c322d7d251fe0a4f01ee8ad58fec22e13d6fc76927e3742
font_02_sfnt_off00013531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13531 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1