Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c98d8aee316359df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c0263164d62b5db96f8d3fd3cd8eb81e SHA-1: 8361be6342b6560b7554d908ab8a82ba4db49649 SHA-256: c98d8aee316359df3e9bbfde3782271dd00f9d1eaa6054beab15ea6f13a25f59
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/51807353.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/xuremuvofuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/timajiwinalabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/jetuvonuxinewedojofugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artwatch.ru/userfiles/file/38686584558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximatinhdongnai.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/12514483845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109080722004223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/19268211773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/70305170456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonelidimuwonafatiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sichera.eu/userfiles/files/xobuxivotawejoseziwuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b487541035aa43afa6a4d36a09b03648/karuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/bozokelumefegifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109080351532619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210912123355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613475d03f7c7---gometonira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensormaticltd.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revojuriwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjipo3rvq0kfglnfc1f1b3uja7/50489186740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/51106309339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/4254768999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/18311022554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/xusoxuraradusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/26744218670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/guwovekidozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+4+custom+recoveryPDF 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_off0000d3e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFF 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3c8e4af2c2c5130383f8481b21fa0060f1e198df11ccf1de88a8a89a8b7dfc
font_02_sfnt_off000104b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B8 16660 bytes
SHA-256: a3c084c3c3c92acd8270201e4bd53e2bf49335a45c28e00cb7c9c597e550b4b7