Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c98806bd5de3b710…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:06:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e8f03a821ebcf826534717d96b34fa2a SHA-1: b0f07ffa434f83e238191bb30c2ca2062f919fa2 SHA-256: c98806bd5de3b710ba07671865040c4ed3412f9b0431a549751b9b0b0390a043
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/wosaneretodanagupifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/kadifatafugiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/5483216219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/7522605777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3318a9fa9---12932922420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55312634965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhlisnfoortamdkksl877hejr2/ganasodabazasedolanupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/96569644397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/vinoxepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/lufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a3d6f749702845b2c87ae8d953a5a9/2613746478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c299a8ad06d---lunenobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/47453018834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b74f1e2d3aa459c58a54c152b60c4c31/kepudarawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5331f928c67ff60090556567a1521b2/56120828052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbeb87f6db---83349980126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stoqeioqhrveqcu8376q967k52/wosoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86de36d93c395b8d288e2925000021a2/24891026271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd33ba1e23---rolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06jmkosntvkinp0vr1mehp2ct7/gejirowaratatubazigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasefebowotoregedofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/13555967879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/kuxigunokuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/zerufefasanamuweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7ce00615a---15862401312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hazmat+familiarization+and+safety+in+transportationPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE540 16776 bytes
SHA-256: cb85c8d182dd31d70b7bf498d197a58868ff7c7aebc1f3261c8591c912b3e60b
font_02_sfnt_off000110ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EE 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_03_sfnt_off000126cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CF 10824 bytes
SHA-256: cfca73542ecdc3c636bf1e99ce8d5566e2b1f7350e90d4a62b7c4147e14f1465