Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c3020fa3716d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5314ce9e3d6a8d2dc5f73950368e6df5 SHA-1: 4d02e38c5e375d7968d53e806d58c448992e37d1 SHA-256: 98c3020fa3716d7f51cd28ef77fe6295e70b557681ed19c900a317923a184c36
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. It functions as a link farm, presenting multiple URLs that redirect to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oversee+meaning+in+english PDF link annotation
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/92613093816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a62m06uopui0eg2haqtjktb790/63934552119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/16065813209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3400d176791cc7bdaf5932f8af46158/70352855642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/vijujozarejebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/26841749316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/vuwetakijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5da5c4d291aa056a8d23de5ad4b64e7/jotiriwebexisefoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/53479241070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/narulexisudapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aceff393c2---tuxuvavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9275d9cae8d6de64b976ffaf8b745b0/dolazopimelitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80an2aej.xn--p1ai/up/file/90003729345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28164698249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba775814340---12043277041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/rojafugenuwugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079714248006---98286101441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/nukunozomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/38243825037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bdc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDC5 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 8bfc5e2f6383778b4716e60c732a7e5228106b692ca52c1f6b3c0b2892049825
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D4 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 1216158bbb63337280f84495ebea168a2940424af521b99a172f2379b2443bae
font_02_sfnt_off00010259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10259 10428 bytes
SHA-256: e028fcc652b1e366dc11a8530d897a3a595bf78df4e2e05ba133a38f9cb844ab
font_03_sfnt_off000119d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1