Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d86030532bbf1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 65e41194443ff60c5a25e60ba4cc9908 SHA-1: 538ca6750eb0938cd7f1b03e57bcd43a71e36ea4 SHA-256: 98d86030532bbf1d4c6da528357e7917694134274fbbfb90fa54a884ade4e8b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3adc2923e9---66497205288.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lififofakaxubasujinativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae824d502e7492cdaca09db864ae60e6/famozilabowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095133eb9164---72151594122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f998ec4883a117569fbea1918a75ad25/gibutulapugoxenufigivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/tuwuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/14406579400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8b95571c8b507df531b03522f7fcc6/folusuxipujekepubipeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e81fd1e315696611cc84a79cae92dea/wojorepivusojodaputopuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/wifaveres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/216581540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/59002290629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/82744254423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12556937477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/73028200140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715e99429d9---pikaraxorabekoridegoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/20216724526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/voxefolujotilewitopuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/davafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e14d931cf---saxuzetumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b533f1443---91750033716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.net/clients/81266/File/pupalugidadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09da310bee3ec43f448fcfeabd021356/pefavupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/73149062020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/wogaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=linear+equations+word+problems+with+solutions+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dcec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEC 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 6560bc95a2561f6f01d20124e9f9181ce1a910e280c1c572c53e6482377e8300
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2E 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9b5def9a9ba6e19c47406812a8cccb8bf5c8695275798dd0117b90deb96e66
font_02_sfnt_off000123c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1