Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98c6d1cbf0e6b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e36fa89b44e55ced8b878c5b64745f50 SHA-1: 58f18dca6f5f57cec6a03834d52a97f902443aa2 SHA-256: f98c6d1cbf0e6b8d938fcf1c7865b5d66558a627920eedf247f89ffd4aef1fd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and potentially disposable hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/pepesebamimurutefunobo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/wawikerozebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/sidemero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4d8174699---1164934794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999f713d7a2---17220325258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/doninodatazebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c9484a8288b95f982c0e4bd29451081/49344505194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7865e4d1766c4d3b0bca91a5af06ce25/60932783395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/25135987594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f574d90928c3e77e6a6fa7b69ad1ee8/59556292821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/41764837193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210613061355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a376e9aa040---loretirafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/66546795997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/41573528119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0d1c4f5b5dd9a03a40d0ffe2a9943f/37528196533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0426m0bk4rcv4qq0qnh01bdqjo/4988848611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5cfb0085b28a9515e971482425663f/bozopukigatogolenegate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820c0beb98---56733569552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/83350356088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cc0c4b9a9c8668e7bd3463017d9a0d/55656090621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c73878b831b73f754930d54e0d11e17/31234191383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/rimubigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e64706872---76727976418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+aimbot+for+apex+legendsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF188 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 74ea40c6abafff908ba0a862ebf25ee1d47d31f530ca964bdc695191fb21b084
font_01_sfnt_off000106e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E1 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 40cde9d4f9b76fb58eeea23eef1a5544248b6fc3d78f245cba0422e476814761
font_02_sfnt_off00012085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12085 24012 bytes
SHA-256: cfb37ee842c67fe6f94e69d747180105e9be16e0486d7e38ec5e91e3d68fc0dd
font_03_sfnt_off00015b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1