Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98bf8252611f7f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 01:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b75c658088b78d4c9e8b287491abe6a1 SHA-1: 65465969e8b0fded45876f45fcbe91a9b7e4db59 SHA-256: f98bf8252611f7f075962c05aa192a0947c73831bfff1aabca515134860e1f86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for phishing content or further malware, leveraging a common tactic of using compromised websites to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39adc59cef850ac89b238b0aed478235/16812012551.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/21236712541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738f3bfc6dd2e4ffa82a4e9f0b8c4dff/72915644642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb1517c437---wubanibalepirubozowesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p7pluifiun3t2vvo2kbn24rmt/43220180185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a447f9b4a76---86114605604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4mq7fjnudtf3tgkm9hcm5vbum/gelisimuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d53473fc0---tumiwedupilon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mazafigilidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0186b632dcf05d0f6fde4ccf77f18ba/tifebobuvixisetidotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ff03dccc8---damokikajatixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/97503894769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/bibolivedosimomezanide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/29761489147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c3ddaaa6d---kakujutute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf5b3291e0---gomozizefobivuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cq98puo0v0a1pqghnm04lte0p2/29920463006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/nepatipobegemerixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/74762366316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607465752cf65---40875344871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c0c9b58c4---48118905923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtmubln27it6j1ii5edbv23hr7/wobipukasabadolulawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/79088919836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=terylene+is+a+condensation+polymer+ofPDF 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_off0000c12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC12E 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 20d9a8268754f6c22f84fb4b5ba7953a42294583174111ee5b1c6510100668ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10264 10860 bytes
SHA-256: cf5b43e22707f6173b1d1bea48bbce98eb35cf9b6d6f51537ea91bb387b0d256