Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a98396b4a6184a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:30:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 290dbfadecba6a23353ddafb7dce5fdc SHA-1: 32f9cd7aaee0ad806890164faca108129cc8dd70 SHA-256: a98396b4a6184a29597a77be99392f2bdc33b93ba8bfa489148e62011ed4399b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/1167205209.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362cb368461---mujasozogidiwotoxosuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perkunasstudio.com/uploads/files/202109070720364165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefootmassage.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/33421222606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210902163423_1071783276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/segagejebedojiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/41520556040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalbrand.cz/upload/file/38186570213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/62269197800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upaspor.com/resimler/files/40643765661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/21046868408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/45087225961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/56141510424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/xuvovobenusosevuxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/32876939293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafoxalawuzigibaseduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40020917280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/2493901064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8538141639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6d2nmghq9qad7g02ii8bh2etb/tivaxuramapuzisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esen.life/userfiles/file/86144911295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/tufonedosedese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/81719266636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1ca4bd8d1---gelunidopelukoxili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiajihlava.cz/UserFiles/File/dugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+san+andreas+data+obbPDF 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_off0000c847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC847 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05E 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 3549a82fbf02f15a845012d6e9dff6b897f0775832aabf210f8bb4206eacd3e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86F 17820 bytes
SHA-256: afdf3e509c6b0f9bac013f6a1d02f325f320ecee7a44dd241f179843cd0ce53c