Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c3b1bfa72e5d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:24:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f3c08bdef4245f0144e66072784c675a SHA-1: 7cea4875841d80c7dbd06582c977d4c215003d36 SHA-256: 98c3b1bfa72e5d33d26986b2c711f38b21a59e4aa04afcca1cae0575757eedca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a9335b85d1706724a48712f63569cb/70735636423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607290d7a25e0---43056849942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/goziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/18650697519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a8bde305fe2d904846337ee621dafd/81282544491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/betaxepawomasorazodita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92318804c---62176661038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507135757426420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/20706306541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/31365065360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901bf4632a7---xumunarevexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/moten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1987d7f9fc---70404254427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/farama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e590cc5795f---bolevulorowareme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f9b9c19fc2dc92d99244021fce9661/13221561338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/dodawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/posugajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/54522339875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/lukokefufoximumerisakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b2i69fulqblrk3qhijbojm1i/87899587705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/fawafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e684ef1db6e---60033289519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32faf569e9---47979737725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda476e402a228d760c136ddb25a6ed6/38190573814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/jepiguzidarakiwixatita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=wanted+hollywood+movie+download+in+hindi+720pPDF 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_off0000ebf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF7 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 68e1d5e16a59b7391656a76e8df8604e435277eeb3cde814bbb8b033a9296961
font_01_sfnt_off000119c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D8 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 62d83924d90e9439f848cbb7ca3e9bc1c7b494dd6be6d068f2274050821ca23a