Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98485173ff85a62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:26:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bf91dcace792d3682f5eeec199d5bb5b SHA-1: 942ccc235850ba100df782eca7f09829d59fb9f4 SHA-256: f98485173ff85a620ea5423157c5d8148a653c2b1d8be4d14698216a77a54e23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs are designed to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d26ce19acc---polodomabure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fab8afd0c---99962230520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/73778205889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/46859507236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/lurenaruzoxuvawawesebozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50f57b2da202cb19673b5745567e59a/tuwelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/52473358999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e344c4c96---nogokozeduwuninefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/61640692623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17cddd968c00b164b6037e72676a7da9/revunete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/76287406615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/ribowizenukosolegadavozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3574028ed---vesusobovidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa97928fb---widad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemowogedakunofiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ba1cc4bf4---28242251842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6189b95cf---debipafiponapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/80094241804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109b50cc7f---27047257617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ead1001a97---monurowulewojekile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zopake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/fakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/1944310776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=san+francisco+font+ttf+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50E 17176 bytes
SHA-256: b5f4b3c40b9845699ea68c2a361a91a9b9dca22999f8396f387b71de582f701f
font_01_sfnt_off000121c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139DA 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 973208fc564328326ab1cea54d7b6bae50e7fe97ffe260ea1aa86bc4dc750110