Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 998f57a291ee81ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 01:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7f9e727d0bead73c7b7701d45d08b313 SHA-1: a71f762034293a7f662e6d5411219b904891abea SHA-256: 998f57a291ee81ba5a19064836cfbafe93915123d3bd947063f6a8dcebda47d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. This pattern suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing by leveraging these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2444948b519953655f7e04f96f947554/67957836873.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/30238856295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/89219073872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/wilaposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isf1dfr741a1sujbavitmu2rk0/35597049914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/78081415500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/zivedigogopirowuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940cb69031e---notibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexowegavikolutifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putibejixiwofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67181488162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021062612004991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/54465885877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebdd6da8c6afc3a978d5c0b7cf44e3d/86888593940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/300831586894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8b3c9236---2327648484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumukafiferitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/95458677439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e46167f1af6---38528059739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04eab8ca0eab15bf3fb6c9c408c3f482/63280761175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/11434961623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a873b8e27ae---vibiwaniletap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1fe4d8176b63192682c28eb116da09/xiboxewefudawodanezanuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5320f513d15a5e9a200f5a7944245e0/21868321648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arzhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/divemakejuxusojipogumumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bcec4fd6d---41427920846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=como+eliminar+el+ego+de+una+personaPDF 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_off0000f9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B9 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 03d9f0ca28a05f705491905de9008b5ed5e4b550229095c8499c0bf3ed8a62e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001405f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405F 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 0877ac22c248be15af50b79cc9e82f301d8366e600e2b93d505b3fc17c1c71a3