Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ca4534cccff93c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:03:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f9e3cddb8d65fe13d44ae88083d00172 SHA-1: ecb71cdac0b7b6641a77961a4989f3bfecae41fc SHA-256: 98ca4534cccff93c30ec1fc9e7f725643c14d3e1dbc7c13339796f0a8a14fd1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+breed+ghazt+my+singing+monsters PDF link annotation
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79e85ca444---totavewobejozume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/40899672579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd8f58eb79fff10f4478b5a7d0770d7/14430898413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f18812a4a---fezipotonaxerokune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d47c2aa8a0f---85782349910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824dd1e0df4---47095077709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab662850a8fae037eac1abdc73d4639/59641160502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839d3d1d1fd---nomomafurizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d807f2963bd2606e2985430f936a181/zojetonovalanulimafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40634664763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b464599764---80896217496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hma1filivv2e1m8ko8q6js79mf/dilobovadikipopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf2a8fc6bcef1f09aecc4eff1967164/41420148031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/legeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f6d100ee5---19232903070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b248688fe6b---dazali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e8ba4502d9def33888979c7b3cb21e/gozepawubapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/57560457654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35b8a10252---nizerisowonalewitamunimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703443e4858---53990086658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/zoxomoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429022617587542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/ziluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/jawuwisudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3a2462b94e251af8f166546a6adae9/7280249225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726addb5e66446177d5c5feb46a0dab5/27654142059.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_off0000efba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D1 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 2406d538b3d7dcc0f58634c5cd9c030847390304d5a8aabd86dce94f6d452609
font_02_sfnt_off00012132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12132 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 639474c8e362849d1665cbbf791ecb738f93841337cfe9d713aaae288d4d8bc2