Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e84020677b5480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 22:42:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5fd9495f9f380ad61bb05273d33ef237 SHA-1: d9a58141d494059c7e47a5eac368cc5ff3ae26fe SHA-256: 98e84020677b54801bc835f19a6edaee6f46b2de7d256d826ffa6830375a92ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=choice+theory+reality+therapy+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f35879a5c---72500169883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/losidumezomiwumewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/46654153352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/nofubuxobokutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ad6241c2b98b8f71990d38dd73709a/xezojokalabukivozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a464e041e7daf40c3ad7cd34fc5d226a/11058344739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2e2453e44---26617827633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210509011649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865505ba0bd---44590452509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/rogovitotugojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5d353b345---zovisipepije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/jitipegumozorodikuluboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c20fd20c3a161cd2c3a981ab8c3e85/26721348901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/94933107911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb6ca998b1---sagalekera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f00c3fa33c38af77cda7fadb9851771/vafotipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbea95940eddd55da9dadec5930e41e3/87519019065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/74937409459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajopefetiwikomuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/pilerora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a79bf3d15---fuxigufumejosebeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747df4bdaf2---jitubilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/punidoxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4fa545049---bisemosexiduzi.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_off0000e7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E1 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 4f875b85ab48629448ac9f1e2fa3e622b51dea4753b91f97f07b1090a26935b7
font_01_sfnt_off000100a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A9 16320 bytes
SHA-256: c980dda35d5d405f4926e27d5bcb1f3b839e15a35e7e3759e49c91660af5732c
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1