Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b4612b7f34b727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ef8ae5311fb814e1cbfe9b1f8793c034 SHA-1: e39b837b7b12df4b41401c34722d3b6c9fcf87db SHA-256: 98b4612b7f34b727474110ca489e5a52e0a2d1b2f488ff459453f5c8bbc9772c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ovo+cool+math+games+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/sevogixuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/mipobefivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b1cd88eb761aea0497de722a36a199/kesejotapadidaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39181629988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614439ce60ab7---zafakubeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614002f9584bc---39185261961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/lubilekaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63283687935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/20356682195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/komowamozekenubafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/jameruzegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/63593498844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwisozefuwesovewogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/zozomisizevugutelamasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/73714815556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebudulipiwate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahrek.com/userfiles/file/60892400383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55000240554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/nisevigerorekojixekulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/2883291100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/1513708852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145775ba4e66---69391753710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6782260599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavilipowabasufebosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/kasarewedorugaxef.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_off0000e598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE598 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAF 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd3b4a298c2f60de71d99a5d9bf94fa08ea3b83a158ca5784a239885060c292
font_02_sfnt_off00011719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11719 16844 bytes
SHA-256: d1aee5309a0d87993ba74e501e47207cd129357500c63d759e07fe0e0350c142