Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b84965d4bb72be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:34:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f75fce9e66065dab10cbd54b4592d6a1 SHA-1: 4ed310c9994ec2b0a2130b41a4baecf9e0baba59 SHA-256: 98b84965d4bb72bebcf0d0115ba21f65e88134016b941516596d9d30d798124b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021060916641_8485821.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/81809389639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74m9ckhss09fepvbe1iqpdd2v8/78416706328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b55c0616c---jodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/woxumagemanowujodulugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5faac82cc2---4219894559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/48747484648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767d0d468a2---49361935802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/59105646874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cacb9529669---topir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdadf6af92---67998762033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f60223e64---72125230606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19468bda08---85565346374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/rijaxutozulepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c9a454d4a7b6bb968ae0cd5eb8af20/93380473269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubo9mlf7pgd6kj761bfik7i9f1/vuserelijikosamefesiwata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbcb027a72---48684573238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fda1422737e9bda53df8f2b82c05feb/51887367774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92a3a6e7c5---wukavajubemidefotame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/fererobetavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2t67tqsphc5u5ebgfsk8vdr2/96492662292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726ebb94a77---goxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/12210076168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/42357891309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/junorixuvawadaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudumosimovupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=allosteric+site+of+an+enzymePDF 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_off0000f4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E3 17064 bytes
SHA-256: f5ab3bd701f35d3e5f64a5e925cefee3f6aa88b92a28d74c29c1dd5561c97bd6
font_01_sfnt_off000121a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A6 10652 bytes
SHA-256: d4c176cefbefa3b62d9455c24320603e67d7d65a44d51a4015e75a231ba59641
font_02_sfnt_off00013a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1