Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98bfa2722cd0b981…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 03:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8b4e2b9b8b46e516602dbf027983af2b SHA-1: ab34ca6e52323d44ca630bcba7c6b9d928a80252 SHA-256: 98bfa2722cd0b9810a8eaeb3faa38219e9815b0f726fa18e8771a037f4e22754
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or further compromise. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms indicates a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b460664c238---sewiwazojifizalasote.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea2b18d9b3acf211a7aa5ffd0c8c6fc/muzagixapavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d5301b239b6df4d01921f4d60a5dc3f/59076336980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/1890536254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/vazokipopumafesoxirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7p0a21of9hqegg9kh508h8vr3/gajavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/forivopafifawunevofekome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o14ivhcnnbdpo94vjget04pkh9/noniberitetolesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/49936974544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90685302b1e59c261c4d291dcf73c17/89838986506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53vriafqpb763gfio4h1lvb72/kerodiwagifadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/25951133793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786f79a6d30---figutokixafebenozebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/zepejimisagoduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e148e7522c12f8b605088a85ef44b94/noxewojakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/86390047428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/larifuzemejizarozili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/41920435984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704d490f5cc---51481042490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d6311eef3---tudujukapulasesekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d2dd70b560ece71282547202f73a4d/17115416764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/koragasudazabepufusakure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/28316688670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/wixeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc780472c9---puzevatomulogulapesabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=packed+bed+reactor+design+equationPDF 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_off0000c142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD959 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 00ef5d416afe4a1c110a26546290c79377bed33029bf2125070726cf7396bf68
font_02_sfnt_off0000f275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF275 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 8054f03fa922cdf0e0f833ae900428efbf38a1d798fd2c5028b2c0609ac6a81e