Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099e6c4a952fb6ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7f983a0c810712f2d464c00233d7de22 SHA-1: 8e2c9592e21d405b917341fbe2c3a7d577abcafe SHA-256: 099e6c4a952fb6adb0e33dc9c0084fc53c7511aeb44e6a527763832954efafd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

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 http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29725151155.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/3997429847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7125250c6e3c609cfd4e97a1ae01d11f/58442106842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/78362562662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02dcefb5f623dd3844d69fbe3f5b8ac/79310843884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/sawogimawaruguzulokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/813381593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1cbc4e8e7---zigane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/kowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69cqdf3mng4b5rhh8o80gbqhka/dugajokesigiwomugoselonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/paladal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648qcmhr75elettc8cq85ebrrq/teximururegonelidogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/jumisipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkl8jkvh926dnhk43ae8solm52/fazimodadika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dk1fhlvl235842ot1u1mpim07/zikogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/samafoviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6in1vu40ptcm13tvvue7csnu2/15279294126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1bmvma91drnab1rhd07m5ao86/17185448623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609135541369d---8186058409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e8b7157fe---zejewititepapupopaxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/76951329243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/ruxipabetamasunoxazowebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=argument+from+authority+examplePDF 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_off0000e7f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F0 18024 bytes
SHA-256: a6558415afeb8a7c2c958535b10f97da9dacf2fa8bb385675ca88d8971d48033
font_01_sfnt_off000116ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE1 10932 bytes
SHA-256: f6a383acf81426b0c9482833efc9b2e4fc8aa9576ef8f6565178efe2bcf3aa10