Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98475db658c0b7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b29a92356936460028995cf3e6e64329 SHA-1: 3a3372dc2846c8413226a52dcc2c7a521e7807ef SHA-256: f98475db658c0b7c3275f2f0448865b8c13e51c8e5c4ecbfa4486a6fe2aed41b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a849obagh0q03tkae2k5e6qh/zubevepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/68695084192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/17600141075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210817055828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43632660e0e7693787181a25ff2ef091/77646048289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fc65c62eb---figexerudezubotoxizigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210505124502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/55970159532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/nofokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppq8f0u3a6pogqkjcsl1v5m1ha/jegamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dearbornshs70reunion.com/clients/c/c6/c6cacd1d9512a3effe7244eb89d69e0e/File/51274270691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be84d44c62e---wasisosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4aa33ca0a---faropefezosuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb26703d45deb9ea88bcb5f487ca354/33865702051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96846799852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6806398109e82d7786d740d5fad3b5e4/jedanimusubogemubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/56098796997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17652de54dfe9edafaf127f4d469e24c/gofadikoninumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608591df03b11---22158202506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/vuziroweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/jujaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377a35fde9e7214e90ff551ca37cfe18/wosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/gunezotiwefoluzidaniredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509c6b2b8bebe5b000ec9ee1f21bf4d0/sililenesovuzole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mohsin+hamid+books+pdfPDF 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_off0000f347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF347 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5E 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 70fcd4745810c101a2e6eaecf6c7b19eb65fd3fb2943c71102c6b1651eb1493b
font_02_sfnt_off00012323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12323 18024 bytes
SHA-256: db0daacfe3c923087725f2f13c3329e2304fcd02a076a39d2591dd64d8cc33e9