Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0899dd65e01e4f3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74e84d27606b8ccdd5b78f31b095860d SHA-1: d55936b9231549f84dc7e055aab037dc62ef12a8 SHA-256: 0899dd65e01e4f3b1d207dd8e0597512163708b2693601ee4f57023ee740674b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are flagged as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content, rather than direct user interaction within this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/kisefumapiramurokibel.pdf
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/vumelagugakof.pdf
    • https://webmedcentralplus.com/userfiles/file/wefegidi.pdf
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42101486514.pdf
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/desezur.pdf
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/lafamexozilumemabirinuxew.pdf
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_0C6EBF0D262CF56F.pdf
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/81321802733.pdf
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/xesodege.pdf
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisibutojijivitiko.pdf
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/merepitux.pdf
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/virelaponojoxasufonakipe.pdf
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/89930080808.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bf04a2980---61235740972.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a829e57101---bivew.pdf
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/zovoxosanuwigutumuvamux.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402e86a9c73---sifuxipu.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c3e876424f5a46b23a48454123086a/85814858098.pdf
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/1815075279.pdf
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/xanevatininolizemof.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/tekugulobujomuritapere.pdf
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/zamazodazuzavawabiduze.pdf
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebepuwotus.pdf
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/40862121169.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=zack+snyder%27s+justice+league+now+tv
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013609.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13609 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014e1b.bin
5032048f45d7e2dea71687dd3274bf9b6a3280d1c6441d60a90293b2f4cb8cf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E1B 18832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017f60.bin
bc9f39c7494e7e39f4552fd090282b7a177cc252b46d770870e70687bdb55cbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F60 11132 bytes