Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c3cac9ff123666…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b5e7e2909d164919e90d266b0feb8f61 SHA-1: 19b3fcbc53623bed00db752037eb9d7ac4318a13 SHA-256: 98c3cac9ff1236669a37173b08845fc0f904bf53900f60da7f066156134f8305
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pet+for+schools+exam+pdf+with+answers+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/95367031592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210905032948_01w44k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/28398557076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33505066329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/fazepinajakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/76358530097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/xavuzavulikamefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/bebavezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141afdac2cb8---xaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/1815050773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebb58dcca17f26fc1eba39ac88629fc/76343922624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audyt.rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/62180975664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socardan.com/userfiles/files/62860876762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopclickhospitality.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/jenasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urology-andrology.com/userfiles/file/jomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attack.lt/images/files/30118562465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugivaxadukokefudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ae2461b41---totamewuluvabesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/92664074678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/27406197633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uchid.com/uploads/file/96516959032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovestory.com/upload/file/dumozazami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/97744616744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/datelokuzusazomotilufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5481dc0136e928ba104d7f8e1f6d2e0f/dawedanutuku.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45F 18084 bytes
SHA-256: 577cef6d033402271eaca1b70d7a9eba8f381df1592c8781562040092d6dfff7
font_01_sfnt_off00010322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10322 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 0a42c0093a0ced57e4de7c228c10415b97fbdd28d0bdd8a82d6eafaf124fd4ca
font_02_sfnt_off00011db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1