Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98c3e793c0f2505e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-09 18:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9bd39870bac54ab2a2dc4114fba042f9 SHA-1: 8cda3754368b886aebfdc03ab8fd8321f2bb0fda SHA-256: 98c3e793c0f2505e5935628994280a19e0113bd4d4ad7a6ad37305d4433dc966
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of an IP address literal in a URI further supports the suspicious nature of the links, likely leading to phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c84a344fd---mirefuxoveki.pdf
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/53795980304.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2311b90974---17705290372.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/voremasitadezinamidedir.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9283121451c91c216a270bc1295bd4/61738979653.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712ec7626d9---wuvegub.pdf
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4494u35a04ckm64v1i8cvs782/gajegofifibis.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2d638ca7e---18976141473.pdf
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/kegujupixowov.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7e8eb7d7c---16558592067.pdf
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/fagotugo.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/33395652289.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9231d34045---35219737503.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083390084ddb---linadabuw.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd5914604e---68531878122.pdf
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/99599751750.pdf
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/govotedoravirefigufofojip.pdf
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/98668777284.pdf
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/nozemamabom.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rckod92k256or1l7r6infl3abr/bugawa.pdf
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/11357444870.pdf
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/69995569262.pdf
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/furufuv.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ee5b53cd5---51832763127.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b7c3805d0---63866552621.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=96+ounces+to+cups
    • 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_off0000e3ae.bin
7e3cb88da924fa301438d00f4b7028b011de9502a987ba8caabdcac8f5bcfffb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AE 16572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb9.bin
f37a98bf0925ed95b46869be128703c6f3658243ce43ae0cea9e90f258fed82a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB9 10308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012611.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12611 16792 bytes