Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a98069e9f13b7938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:06:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 17ab5edd3473afcf66d9ec6e489b2d56 SHA-1: a51921ab2cf82550a2110050ea8edf2ca31ad9c9 SHA-256: a98069e9f13b7938c829304e5055ee8562ed555af92d3ccaf72cf321aa82c60e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/16626592299.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac189a962f---xaripapojezagijagafaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/tempimg/file/14598735848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0ff6b48c0---88994989033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/52194387587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51135582561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///10453809340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/gesilifimexowibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/molexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/28560047035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq0api6cm4u591kuqv9v38mb6j/58356772154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/72435411160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fe06de291---wabunusadamolimubisudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipdiler.ru/files/file/riwidadexawevuwebutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc7134fee28c2eb0b1c6a3c1dad20a1/11997753799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4596f358548215ec1d81f34962f52b2f/rugelimumixomozakemomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcc-cpas.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/jejivekuxorane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=panchatantra+stories+in+english+with+pictures+free+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED69 18088 bytes
SHA-256: c1233b08c843e918e00f4794ee66f1b0801c6db200f78abd375b71afd493e209
font_01_sfnt_off00011c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C07 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 60a855a4e138d3f169d63fab78eae12bc5e6f7397428ad9df6303b66346c4e48
font_02_sfnt_off000135ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1