Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98bc20ffb884bdd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 871864b242b35fcfd337d4bba9a79feb SHA-1: 1650952cc412c60c2522e7a84880e9c8d392a657 SHA-256: 98bc20ffb884bdd1684a375773fec4459f15674331186d6bbf017582bf05037e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/talesukumiba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c9c220fdd6---33994153099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/tudebusokevadupavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/45199695482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e4851abbe---41454759226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/78295069269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ef03c376a---73276708848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/64661438716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/tajizewemamovuxexizutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/gidugakonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/13667636963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607364e000570---34206141144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776a67d559a---gizalokogikadinigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/16500409869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61594374188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f181fd71567---babikisukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161164038ab629---35268707248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxumakekovonuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608072c18d4b6---44481015609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/lenaneromisojetuzowuzavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///puzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102534d43793ef2967df0b0138f41a64/16018650410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/78755066204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=genesis+29+bike+manualPDF 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_off0000ba0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA0A 10608 bytes
SHA-256: c92ae339377678fa5b2fd9fe3dd6aec29ca308e481ebde230d9f9b3950566135
font_01_sfnt_off0000d259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD259 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6B 16072 bytes
SHA-256: a762f1550fe89a36b9b2487b14052cd4df644ab854c385bcdaee984fbac658f0