Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099abbc640135a89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1cb099e7468ad15dfefa5cde9d800289 SHA-1: 258d780b363cf164ce391a6eb9cdf48610f6c39d SHA-256: 099abbc640135a89484c2c345f5f2bb17a10ab3cb5271f3137abc3c401741d6e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/wukavutuxipikodag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/88542954477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/56324523182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bibewenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/51272575497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/98676037316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763c9e250c6---90512216740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/48921813606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24125019127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07935ef6d4---81438001760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinacafe-dalat.com/Images_upload/files/39289912822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e0d1bda43---sevalasosoboronuvotali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38dcff807f84e7a3c5ac352e0e57a014/19801805996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/27648830442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ef9d37046---bodunuvodumalakodojadipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e51335f205a---46811191997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789a76dc36b---dawawedobutelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/15647042894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d94fa5022c---69262601825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f446233486ff348ba38615d9faa7487/826774158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o76bpi4ff3rb77lg8rsedltk2b/ralofusafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/midezolakojojobuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/xizirivebixewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4s261mninofobn6djvjmdhhg6/32602921817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/papibesozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=winning+chess+tactics+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E0 17480 bytes
SHA-256: edac3c8d3d5b30590d9a594584e22c70ed56642e83cb317d097659075c4d5786
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5A 10880 bytes
SHA-256: d3abec4bfedb4ce888291ab74fcb970fea71512568269ae9f04234f6b4a16208
font_02_sfnt_off00011850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1