Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b8bfeb0f3e8c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 8a89e4a04e42196632d51d207e908a61 SHA-1: 8ea59bcaac81bc92a7a3e8f5124c8bc12f0cd734 SHA-256: 98b8bfeb0f3e8c5fc48971320a4f7a4f3d20ab8f61815bc1f9dbb3ec4791feff
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/raved.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9239334495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-styleauto.com/js/upload/files/53976630566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/31985245780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/45010571183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355de6d5d81---40853687456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/waleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/dupukeruwazemugodano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132450563dae---turaxilezawodowigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/gipuvimamoruririka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea34fd1368---26751506011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/95074304861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2255548381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmbb.at/userfiles/file/mafopuwofefamujosijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/winaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/silamegovufakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/84105228273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/sulafuvukevobenege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/35395714012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/kajesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/36161113876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb01044d61c842900ec86bad1b66d69/dudojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekmeta.lt/failai/file/82827104370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=unturned+id+metal+scrapPDF 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_off0000d62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE40 16656 bytes
SHA-256: e3ae135eda4885bfd31f6d93d92b79cd923d9e1a231454b126e0fe93814de2f0
font_02_sfnt_off00011937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11937 10664 bytes
SHA-256: c5fbf97034b6a685a558d0830370d12fd6ba84eb89202b56ba80c2271fd96ac6

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