Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c98d7ab3a72200a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-06 17:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cad9db12b788c2d9921c193bb9502d16 SHA-1: 13d5c155b5e8c7fd3f8dfb9067f369715033af0c SHA-256: c98d7ab3a72200a6319d06c97983a5b400979f55f5438af23c9001c1ac200820
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe2ce00f06---zibiwebedodetiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/90682693681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7fadc22663e9d18760b94e362354ff/46906914891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/timurutagivufusurogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/sogizelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dab0d498587---pudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/lebubunamovawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/11557460412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/baxadexeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6100ba4ca6d4c8b041af79498336f676/87780390860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161008dc4e42c9---45149061272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/potafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd35a6dba0---16159964939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/342c7eda8ae0d314ec62ba51a26631e9/bavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/21225060201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210529114342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/8891591196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/zopina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/xowebokenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/61405425085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/93774632163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edison76.com/clients/5/54/54c13950cbd15a81e6fb4362eab8f273/File/zuzidekozegemafasobiwexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/31610320921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37e9048b165e06a456bec1fb27628ca/53369885211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cdisplay+para+android+descargarPDF 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_off0000e00c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00C 23132 bytes
SHA-256: fc362f7dc07cea148a7a5c0c6e1a699fd00991d213d9f8f8e72ea9592dfd7bf2
font_01_sfnt_off0001187c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187C 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 4bab6c40203515c983971d5ae37b1bcf0b8a80b259d18f018f821bb06a3bff57
font_02_sfnt_off0001310c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1310C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1