Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98edc18ee9fab334…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-17 17:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 73557c699b5aa8d70da336fd879cfd7e SHA-1: 2254c86caf734d0f2a02ff31d07a827322811901 SHA-256: 98edc18ee9fab33463fd33c29eb96a0ac16c07fc7b60b0a6297ab604f35ab233
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/gatuvivuruse.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fc6769236---39651636577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf182812707---nexibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/gelujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072565f9674f---10902263821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/52316766705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/fitulumetazawibati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4p4ke2hh5sh6us6bq5hvld17a/38778870357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8145deaa3e3261890ce67a0e1e4a847/33752331351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7abbfad32d26d66e883fe5f24996ac7/98436140951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/91585363868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45msv7uc9vkkvsq1r6do5u0q45/48845367977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/bizinemewasokuvusefesagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab17e4b95bc---fuvinujegubugogolifaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609185a5ce505---misisoxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098475298a2b---97647858616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e90217f0d---pizegawolofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/dabonuzewojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f7cca662f---67136334293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+guns+sound+ringtonePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD515 4892 bytes
SHA-256: 8ebbb6ba5f34adbe7adad2e8647c5a5ce64554d1ea3a0b6cbbce5aa1cf6edac7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BF 3748 bytes
SHA-256: fd5198afaeeb0756fa8e1b5132c740121e2989da0b2f5e2395f81c530c60b1e7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f48a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48A 11388 bytes
SHA-256: db5c5cdc8f2688e12e61082a677a425088c914348657e0a4de95cc987a96430d
font_03_sfnt_off00011abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABD 16312 bytes
SHA-256: aad9bc0f36eadc3314e08670b59090120051e308b357201f134af3d0b781b2b0