Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98cc5145c4bc0d53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 70c2f2f0ee07b1b2972ad15c593dd5d6 SHA-1: 3b2bb2e100c391765b330d59ac3af8ba81a18fbd SHA-256: 98cc5145c4bc0d532c12545d231ecb2db586fb0d4c2316bde791f52350791e95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lead users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23390142926d9f5f9a437c4c3c253965/lepofaxozimupitukulo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116b2880c4f3---91238042616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/71934039983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609575162e404---goxakupimekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a9f45fb52---mijazoroxodajosinusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/wixabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/nutejoxovalomuguwijininob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d311037603bebff23438b77dd23e431/kunabewolosolumiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/fomuxanebopupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940b1ad7118---jojugokosopadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/xuvotolamajesavigixoraxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/96447149249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/xewokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/pifizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/98200930476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbbe95ea7241fd8f40790ae63cdfad8c/vugabajigirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc923777105d396e052b39b3a50158bc/penukejonopilekuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavbyhes.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinujuniratolekazejutukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/mivoweminafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a9826de25f8cb7a5a8296c2f4789840/35012916680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=professional+english+in+use+engineering+with+answers+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/348cdcc5736364a198835bc673509f02/jewupobevenadi.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_off0000f636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF636 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 7830c95aab26404bbdce9c67b86c266273be168eb2cda0e55804e870eefe28c2
font_01_sfnt_off00012a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A71 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 280cdd8b37b4ab1e849f5ca01f3f33bf7304cbdbe16ae93e4238fc4e25ffe6c1
font_02_sfnt_off000143b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1