Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e8216ed205f907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:49:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1d375f0a239868d00b1fa9e233e8010f SHA-1: 55a50b95383889c411f0c2537cc6b2599065cd66 SHA-256: 98e8216ed205f9072562fb3987263f0f2ee07da94b411b529cc61202e441a3e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, suggests potential for further malicious actions like downloading second-stage payloads.

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://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/85748298029.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b4duq0eg6nmqiv8rui2i1kdts/fokabefukomirezivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bcbf5bb99---73390855477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/90706355191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/60366097772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb85a13a4c---basumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/fadetakuzovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/fufuneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/rowoxufuvowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f612e3bf8df6e3c333bce2428c78e72e/dewuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/lemezijafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_7DBE8D0B7FE75F4D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/300513e04a795a07d2e9d943c665574a/pupazove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41225888028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializzati.tecnaevolution.it/dataload/ckupload/96979772783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/69265336857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903032813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/91631097184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/51946101277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/90211210092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/kagelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/kupoteveridimamelexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/41886516347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50374029895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=gta+liberty+city+stories+apk+old+versionPDF 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_off0000e072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE072 20212 bytes
SHA-256: fb410db8267955d7c1e1e2454830cb24ef45edd42cd8062ca93a38e61a24848f
font_01_sfnt_off000114b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B6 10956 bytes
SHA-256: cf9f4c4d4a11aba56e20a4047bab86bc93090378a05f04dd1573330434693bc3
font_02_sfnt_off00012e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1