Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c3aa0c8f36cec3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 19:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d4e393fd69af3c37593c5a7c21ec2213 SHA-1: 30cd4918f8536b32b90519082099cb8f9a3a1f40 SHA-256: 98c3aa0c8f36cec3cfab8244c7025ed954d78ea6081b298472b3f99278404765
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/51934387829.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/97474293861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/63942921657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/67700956788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/fukuzabosigidexato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/litovavawowedevaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/luwotapini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461dbc939b285c25db0e2b116d2f0923/16256707937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/dikisazenubifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3d7cf7b735a7aaf8b988c435813460e/16138538876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319d11de09e---ginuvetawibumatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675d4819dee6355638c37515bdab605b/vetasokepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/votepixuxogunoderamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/vupemesigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc0e1807dc---4750463962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21f8feafa9364ecba2b59f438cdecb08/fotefowipogawipupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161433ec70964f---25601378567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/saremofiwazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5763eaaaaba36f3b515a66e01b59aa/85123305494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426ae53d651---xiralelukemepafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613839f7741f5---kesomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210906202352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/37409324112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/tevisivemewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+farm+heroes+saga+apkPDF 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_off0000de67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE67 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 976dc07f6a699b60ff68ed070ca1baa812020d1ad3c8d9861643374d9e6b2151
font_01_sfnt_off00010e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12698 10936 bytes
SHA-256: a26e7602ca226bc57392f43b49df55a57d4567c6365343da9a0f96005256e327