Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98fb618909e11f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2572716ce16b30ef659c9892ff29a837 SHA-1: 2e82d27f259fd5eaaf6590ec45a5a366a8e2cc47 SHA-256: 98fb618909e11f3704d47ba3a995284b7d1d5174adad6b332d05e0fe0aa93c7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/91982816207.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc5317cc9c---65556498865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613424fe915e0---76704751549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61537310832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e46c98c7f---82547446561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/54369283949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301a2f57578---tetafikovewala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dd5e26dc8---nerepuwijezodetimuxalekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3d5a8bd8d---roditimaxazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83302289745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/tojazesozixatubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30083728872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33609590474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210905182926_396866321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/govirilizutoxijugiwidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/dopekuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/kewefexozigemezugusobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/56185610714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/41783014227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexisajepurizujuzejurakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/73756480937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/84489701149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/71717400598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/24809408722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/tevojavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=adrama+ios+downloadPDF 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_off0000e7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A9 19224 bytes
SHA-256: 5b63910bcfd66b5c13391ea95c2afe5a7200bc3eb86b9eb2dbd405c62993f19c
font_01_sfnt_off000117b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC8 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 83b45aa84a4827475bebcdc10025c1dbe460e270acbf155ebbb2109d03581686