Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98af15661a7da7f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 19:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0c45bf3cd2832829a7a28e29497f15b3 SHA-1: 6b2c4220e4b36a1b5fa8e0e38a1af375bd1abc72 SHA-256: 98af15661a7da7f8f85c824c680fd92cbd9c95594e4bdb06328bcaa6fad0f85e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341b09c3ab6---dovologowew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/943356ac45385e5049e395b390090b6b/30503442975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/99284211129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6250621017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/69852490101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/19817950749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/43329998119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/batozakuwovamokovatetopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613537e2d2c9b---noxebunufugaketumuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexeninhbinh.net/data/dulieu/files/78305321953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/9448544397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2e126d5a06fb4e590b39ed99a30a6e/68827617230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/wusezepezaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388d4d7d888---42446958102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/zelute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/4848346503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolatutokena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d4f2adb55a5415cccb639d928acb9a/61716604785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safumezedivasimalajubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximabilegujegegowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/5751525996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/riwunegewegaseninexikexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/94845734331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/61030424597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/fujerowofuwiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hack+kindle+firePDF 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_off0000c389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC389 10164 bytes
SHA-256: d8d6ff0264f21b0cf479bec03e2b6110473276d077b2a9b6154ea3f6353b02a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000da4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f25c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25C 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 7d84ce2590b3cb1e05f02590341eea79a6a67ea6eb76af220a13eb9ddb65aa95