Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d598aa88009e7300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 63092e5cd411fc19240ae1b4a7044732 SHA-1: 2fa801e11479b4009f156dfa801a9878c37ce31a SHA-256: d598aa88009e73009598289e652dc66d52812e0b089b7adf6158e93a539695d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging JavaScript for execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/145ca6999974a27ed3ee675afdc51700/42595934111.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/149639889260a6540cb13f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25791207806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/19641151103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b92b17410a---33760656031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a704cca279d---zobifesaxolegavikaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/237f69acce44f6088c6654a08dcc3e50/37510472197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b028d7238---wobasufulewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/94053373406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df9d7514a8---93643788991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87af31738---65284096675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e96de716d---16182934351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bf92e2748---87210215192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svp098ta7jc9enmbf3ucqfdgi3/teberaviruwuvaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a549112e---bonapatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/1938945475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/36894434787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/wukeziwelekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/58695677582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f04860c7082c5cad018af9ab63f806/dizebigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092eb92dc18c---93623817366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/fejeviwokerikosusotanage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/molugozadujugonuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae33414e4f1---22711711247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915c614b8a5---96608089360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=drager+x+am+3000+manualPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC66 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 66fc9190a5b2093386d05aa10e5c64fbc28ad7bdb50c70b55d17c7b2981f61f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC48 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off000111c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C0 21388 bytes
SHA-256: a8af5273fcbbff41ee9ced0cc14e57ecc714ce67e634039fc262ea466f25aaa3
font_04_sfnt_off000143e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E8 1824 bytes
SHA-256: 035a3b7e956f25d6e208bb90e6916583eb82ef7d705ccb9823d5d2a4ad59470f

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