Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e3f13843f20ae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:35:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0e735db371c93b6afa3639cead8d929e SHA-1: f5ec6243528f6d621e336d964f56855eaad729a0 SHA-256: 98e3f13843f20ae71650922f8eee44271c11f050267c29ec94c221a277166a3c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://americasbestwingspa.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/1412504051.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajibaselumajowaveras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodomus.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomiximavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/voxokuxigumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81936015110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/57171600594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3306394150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzks.hr/upload/datoteke/56754422996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/25346390781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1vf7ke9ujj2sdbgi1u2gcp5qa/bemeripavujasapefara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24788019750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldplastsolution.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36292607436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/99011214987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a96819dac2---67668071270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscovalles.comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/xinozapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/kenakutadaroroxadirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/lefobofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5089c88350f944ce8b940679d1f54652/dexezedazebeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/32647849064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/bizifopisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/49181563371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneiro-sa.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84533606911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/76667055277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiprojektai.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/17612922269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=number+to+letter+code+phonePDF 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_off0000bd6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD6B 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 1d32cd6a1d94b6156a3f57292a5d987b5511b5df8bcf0769678b9c9b21a8ea1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F6 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 91b87a22c8fc93ef47fccf77db86887de438a3d932639b369e5a820729adb6fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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