Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099cc2af69919602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 03:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4adbe47fadcaeb0a34e60dcd2a435f8f SHA-1: 17f8a928696a64e6e57c2f8e0c6fc28cfaacb730 SHA-256: 099cc2af69919602679fba425a3445aafe1950ebdb47c030d9a80641dacf7b63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhqs3b2vdc0bf3tiu3dnud9lk2/36179960574.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/15749657182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/4941893053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7188463dc9e0663cc0c20aaeb8e13228/turafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldqffgs685jtla4f7pugcsas1vo5cu4g/62986588231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--299akc5b432k2sev7g.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_14E02803AB91594B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/xabimuxalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/rurogixuvawokovibisasebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc7203afb---nukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82bdc76545---72797884848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/6329780619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/zebenuvurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/pugapigilabopinajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/83479765593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/im5ki6tn0umn4kad6tm9o2deqj/10323580386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_D7E30CA9001E4A62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b774cde21b---lugamukozivuxobagovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e2144f67ebaa464de7191ea9aab7de4/fijetoxejama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unnut1sll13c5d4dim7naohamv/49416287521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/rexometax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607780dd4dfd3---36889126699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seteo-dechets.com/images/file/9855088657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8f240081d1---32554004196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/49653733541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+challenger+sale+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_off0000c1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C8 10756 bytes
SHA-256: f0e8bb0bf2e855748defcc2b8fb24f52152f61645a07420882596492bd463b64
font_01_sfnt_off0000da52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA52 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 3db1693168bfd555f87a477f5715822424984ad9f688010e48108cecef4e5c0a
font_02_sfnt_off00010527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10527 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1