Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d7ddef3b92ec78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-08-25 16:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 5ebdac7751414335b1d843947041508a SHA-1: a7294116be5fca9aa8f231717a3521d8c52346d0 SHA-256: 98d7ddef3b92ec7868adc66394630a6a0217b10655bb719abff08dcbd0f81b62
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification, a link farm on disposable hosting, and a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of external URIs and a link farm suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure, potentially involving callback phishing or a tech-support scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mindtap+cengage+answer+key+french PDF link annotation
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/2680964450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/2845700764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turorujutuwamifajofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54b987d27b---panujepegelidusunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/memowilopudafuvamavovita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/72759426656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b232a3cc4---74200285966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/safomipexetubumojubujaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b36ec022be---58052360985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/boxuloxafowonopowolugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/jejogepufijimujimogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/44382431852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzmbc1611.com/clients/e/e6/e6eb4f38db7021b04b945082fca6026d/File/lewazonilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/75511482965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968c0b7b0aa98541027dd6611209fe22/32304109711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc972015ab---20581464415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35616726634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a922f5e2529a1284e8ac27ffec05fbb7/faxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/77311029308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/kibanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fe2b3f3d1383437b7995bcd9764316e/83624146184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855f0805be5---mididupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/22575262752.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_off000113e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF2 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 242847e60110674b4510c7528f0705d38cc2767a334a1a5779019f95063ec5f2
font_02_sfnt_off00015b49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B49 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 582f44b547f54bc731e33798024d77e435b0c5b23ba925fbabbcfa71d627aa1c