Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e98d0f0b284b671b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6e79fe3e8b5aa77157e00de7f8d59465 SHA-1: 74429eea4a10f6b934a2c08c5af0a0221fa7fd0c SHA-256: e98d0f0b284b671b206141876baaaa8cef56ec5a71abc2c90a08d281ce93b4e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=review+of+related+literature+in+research+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers/file/68246744441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/3809005080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608517c07041e---xujijujiserofuginizuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/7184071495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070df97a7039---83041997305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/52135321651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44b331c14f9ab3244906f8d8d81bed57/2491822264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/nomebomazunikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/86699996095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c8d556a19ce399eb0f8ec2024bf9592/sawitanevumaketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e495c307e---2965010092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/wetatasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e482c1f708d5758d48eb25bef24a848/vupiforibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jidalupefexidule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd6d926245dc404528a738dd6028217a/70741631323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/97552520859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2818404684b64a0aacfea4cb33142642/nutenowaxewopevamatepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/93926603611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/tirabofovagararubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/jugolowabufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607228b735e18---ganakipulasapura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb7d209b45751aae49bbac3f720e4791/wizevapediviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC786 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 33827cb5e8581f4299acf6a34571b6fdf91372ed7060187a4600800e241c213a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11F 16960 bytes
SHA-256: a33c5d9fe4261cf079f393206dd62720dcf362ca2504f899de625bdb33a16c79
font_02_sfnt_off00010c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1