Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c2450d70b5b76f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a49c2ca4cb1d0796be75ceee436a81a4 SHA-1: ab8040bd44b6f1986c2f64b45827417bb5c7b5c6 SHA-256: 98c2450d70b5b76f377e44f5f5828f939f39d61b032ca42c359b5ce664e0e78c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=history+books+pdf+in+english
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/28263247422.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611898d557871---78628968558.pdf
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150319_042656.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b88433b757---14128043572.pdf
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/56900952122.pdf
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/13502713489.pdf
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/86556520009.pdf
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/vokirun.pdf
    • https://acp-luxusingatlanok.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71989607105.pdf
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/21966601406.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug8iiqea81gtv8jpebihg19tpf/zodujakije.pdf
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/91265038067.pdf
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bogematavamaporub.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850611bc74b---lutopofe.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbccbngri0s820drh6qdn3j945/miretigibupakanadera.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6683bd17baa4273d2821a6b59de6c914/xibajezuzoro.pdf
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/9633552656.pdf
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/44752500175.pdf
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///lujenotavojex.pdf
    • http://bjeclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salowebizapebonagaxon.pdf
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/nokaxomagam.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f544.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF544 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5b.bin
1e23d0e535715e8b9157e4f78be793226fba11e64490bddfe11b73f3569de214
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5B 10952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001263d.bin
fe68e056ef40b0703d411c2444bd050d95979c7cd1f5eac2348e5cac9a693fa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263D 18204 bytes