Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ffab9e68761091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 13:52:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2249ca0008ab00be8294a77dc845c902 SHA-1: 5f4ea6d07da97cc3663b465423fa50d980a5a6c4 SHA-256: 98ffab9e68761091d0222c1e211596f9a9d0fa74bc47857ca823fc4b8dfe3175
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=pokemon+brick+bronze+randomizer PDF link annotation
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162644309761912701889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a824290dc8---91811497787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6617954bd9128f2230b187969e7ec56e/vasixazafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/rarutirujamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed97b3a84f6ee1e28b87d5daa36eed9/manevolinezinatetuborug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/96719826685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612a02cb73a85e3e7fdd82b8eb55bf6c/37803820616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb82d0036ab---82993355630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430092758941386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075113145a2e---22983029738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles//files/92795180312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/pajireraginejawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lvfiles/file/77016600962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/124iq0nkpfvafh1lbt01m2qst3/nasimelamuzeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106291212328224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6bel81tu0shrsmq91rda6rj6b/bujugixitikenipure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackwingsexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/16549937932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/34198010904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/91908648072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca25b880058---denesufojerus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/wufazogesaja.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_off0000dedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F1 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 357c5c1b61436e63fa90d9866109908cefc40f13954d77eab2bbe3bcbad90158
font_02_sfnt_off0001243c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243C 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 8c5797418583bfe76455a65ce6631593ebcfcdd5514f43269848b9628995d7aa