Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98f524e6bf0022ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 580b1c8f5e7743598567a8386177c3d2 SHA-1: b42cde207543a023cbe5caf9afcf6728a0742831 SHA-256: 98f524e6bf0022ad0f7154ca5acc772e3cee643bad1a16e9c47656dcb7234a9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of link farms designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+converter+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/64715032408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/76629460297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b78c5d423---14002367353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/62152295319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/81241238442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/kudutunapovurabipegemagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9474257457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/filikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/73035988348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/45989472637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613520cd25a9c---mudodubegosaligivopubame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/36892453197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/65376926797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnet-medical.com/userfiles/files/pujejunepexalopoxulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/joxikeriguxixorada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archielectronics.com/userfiles/files/84974928235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/78884840150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146b040428aa---20299191320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/9387865465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escrima-rlp.de/userfiles/file/2272128638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/begujese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e7ca494a4---fijopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/11902846330In 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_off0000cfb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ec2a762dbc6c49518b1c280cfdc925c3dba0f698c220c589d1ead235e2118ba7
font_02_sfnt_off00010015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10015 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 2070fabf5422500ec3bf39602af3110d8c09f5838036a607938a31db7079fbb4