Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b91fe04e285995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3e92618c339998b25aadb8afa1982dc6 SHA-1: ebcc03200b7d5ac6f3fd5092f1099c1f6d2b23da SHA-256: 98b91fe04e285995273b7b72d75121ecbc9bf6f9e4b1da1db30aed90b7199cab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17343b241b8f58802783893847d55632/10903702609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3486ceb40---daroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9u9acrsp7d66ja82jpja3sa8h/juset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/puwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a018f823446---97210287771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/84148134296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/27740577804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/wivawalopekagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/86943219357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/61898632610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/79394016358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985ef02d64d---divafanugorivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983877334f6---41905100007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/saviwiririnuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7fe668d43---71396260689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rlk6g5on1dadutqu94dvi2a7o0/14310548014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/82821842897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f2fbc2db0---36806675256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085af224a2a5---69727823987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26fa188e8f---95220123384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e1b41797c---84467411192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65316895711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609060a2da541---8018299244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4a03a00c7---8521843698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=process+of+igneous+rock+to+sedimentary+rockPDF 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_off000102ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABD 17056 bytes
SHA-256: b076993aa366002258ed78deb2787bd3760ab4dd6b9dcb9f9a4a39030ba807f6
font_02_sfnt_off00014712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14712 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 38ac4d270cb98b03d5e7a4f67ef37dd1d0c7c7093b4656085748a115b999f6df