Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98bbf5005db48a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:55:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 87880309d2669cef64415792c22511e1 SHA-1: 523d92865438bb32f5cccba3dc12ed8786a193be SHA-256: 98bbf5005db48a660bee5a529e61857c9ef19497f7bbab77f0b599cc7d1c6817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or further stages of an attack. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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 http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bipisumepenozukop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feuv0pqqj20mb0vbbei58073ge/jurerunorarosupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/93457245094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb80714e241---47432548285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85mltp68aen4mq96d2hsomkb13/30550570378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83aa58576cb54672b04e0455cf728992/81977322811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9711746b76b14c14f55d59b2e9887b/84352365527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/sujaxopugosolasapubade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/torodetulale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815ee862484---83642460968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/393720134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861b58bb4b8097ecc7643a3d57dbaadf/lezomorevamimizodax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/51448258901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/3647533130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/kaxexaruvetowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fbe5b3c1a50b289bcc1e2a841b3ec0/pumarovivalupozeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d7c615297165fb585c5955b2070b40/boguzanefowodotatefudere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallorcaboom.com/res/wysiwyg/file/73239992454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/33906921868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/17842871268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp31cd936mhpvls1o0f0buh2ue/fobowebosukopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df0290f8fb26bf7ec5a41896dc95724/85585556247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6420dfdd5c42c9050da4d687f346b421/81929480735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3aa508347---57858115414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20244960430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/5805821520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ch+11+maths+class+9+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB69 17812 bytes
SHA-256: c6f307a2b71e769a3ecb0fa1428e6234b6c158383a7be4d71a581c5e361c7170
font_01_sfnt_off0000f946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF946 10588 bytes
SHA-256: b00bacbd0867b924e1bef4089670381d193d15b8205b08ea68687cf476d25d56
font_02_sfnt_off0001118f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1