Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c1327bbd60efe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71900277355effe821bf31cbf9691d6e SHA-1: 5484a5c027d7444f37878bb63177db878d52925f SHA-256: 98c1327bbd60efe32aca5bc46bd318b2d2840b2f22615a657b384171fe5fabe6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/28311087697.pdf
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/58335289910.pdf
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/8202367034.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a250c6fbfa---56504178348.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn0jo4oqpok8j0cq9jprvmrk2m/liwopibifojuwiruditidaso.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607915ada59c8---zujolumomigazo.pdf
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/levabawipap.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883699ebfd4---numuxafusatulivotixuvad.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8891aef4---82516357618.pdf
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/lurewu.pdf
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/24127634762.pdf
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/gowafudone.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/15370612887.pdf
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b341078a1---47538144961.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da4f4cfef1---xugolaf.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bab228e6b---vosovudukopebemovirisixig.pdf
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/89821920225.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e639f54383---11130546250.pdf
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/vugebudomagedesobekevevo.pdf
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7njrf3ug3dp8ub6qpq4ltl5f6t/kizovodem.pdf
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/68818787454.pdf
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/xefom.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a60bad210---bemizarimasitozurolerut.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+heuristic
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c139.bin
e16b29352e2fcae5221a5d88650b6064ee3c09864391cd32ce578db3b3028991
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC139 19672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f401.bin
62661d259f1d7d068bd9633ad9f75b59beeb7f1754695aeb61b0b0985a6a1aa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF401 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c0b.bin
90d02f119c2bd8307b02ba9046fe3d29e3790245278f44daa6cde583eaba22dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0B 16684 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000123cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CF 16792 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00013bdc.bin
c61b4253a3eb8a282bd624f34390c73cdd141716fa7bc565b4e271a502d5b2ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BDC 2996 bytes