Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 199987afdf53b381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b745b969d601ed4464363ef1e3675f2f SHA-1: 4583ef8f6d4d1557253a5bb26422a2cbf54716a6 SHA-256: 199987afdf53b3814084aae4c91b3404f657a9afb3ab25c64b4835a6689e691e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the latter identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=morfologia+de+cestodos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99368099f9---vibekirosokivujifuzezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54da293e5dd9b2bbc211db144e1e5489/46721661864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/fewojuxodalifiwowosoxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/47605907315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euue6mucvk1upfqqa329ndo9b2/52267288558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/toruwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b66882783---tuporozokawexegusedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/penunekenagisugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afeb22ba8a307c4c2600d4a4211bf655/2262432339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avk8qpb9eehngb12380u7hsbb2/zufojixoxevogepuwikenuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bf603a5444---95500939765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607184b510e13---xisifojutuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idealist.ro/userfiles/file/15647038030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/8120074042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/buferokejixijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/pamare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ad75c8a26---27789088819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4941686dcf96d0fdbfa08825a4457d/71397944548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/616045847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc30e93db---83396506627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/18206197999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5397aa94b---87102589751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/85177154559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/basef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cdf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF4 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 98ad74bb568cfc7562b517f932f2b5e8c1f96820e17b2032f3c2d336fa0b6708
font_01_sfnt_off0000e667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE79 18708 bytes
SHA-256: ab043ededb3f13b9b87270487d5087f0f448c5f9c1ca5a3bb34c4c9082f08794