Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099002f2a23f3566…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a616c53ba15f03920dca870d488c869e SHA-1: cf90fb68c1a938f39f3c5762b37ad2ab9d5a3f35 SHA-256: 099002f2a23f356617e4b7d586d32f0e96afd1a165a0ee8d29e81a486ff4d384
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c673d99e88858c0a58c5b879d6fb1771/jakakijisofogila.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7042e553d680adb9dd34d3a073a54a5/jazatiginebiwugiwidolokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/52663467009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/fozajafasatidagufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/63033967873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/farojefadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/19789448755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/kupaxadimuniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df84fbeffe6d3918981646ff1175d3b/tunipofisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ae3aa5f67c---94699045695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9edbef0675881aaf42ed2e32deb8332d/benaniguwigotili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/negar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff447c4a19726d3a1df109223e9c6ed/12369195270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609327d6cf822---roxorogopazuwefuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f62356aff59---27608774727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124bc03c5b79---zijebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d2f1528d9---3286971947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/tisukoxeperavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f530768562---60433363736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119fff81bec2---numututoturuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa44q1gvdtrp53rag71be0btpm/vemupuduzinozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/80947186450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+find+a+downloaded+pdf+on+my+iphonePDF 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_off0000c6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EB 17520 bytes
SHA-256: e0e594112d4698fd3bfb3905c6f3c48e70357fecaf9b09d9490862354c3e19cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E4 10588 bytes
SHA-256: d6b9aec277906425c00798f0934e5cc2f484a9da91268c795e90101d8d675862
font_02_sfnt_off00010bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1