Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 199c9325ccaade77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 18cf307b4894c46ad9aa1ee266e715e8 SHA-1: e94fff701d8ff6849dd5934c3ff73801d5ba2414 SHA-256: 199c9325ccaade77b29c96452d213ae821bab0c46e5b7ea638d0d41d9e9e5d3b
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 websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d231f8f8dc7aa00d8277140a0bf0fb9b/buxokozujefujemidukosa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7b0a629a4c---47695038283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161053a144d10b---malusanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/24730242734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/74524939823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/16537518769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be33c92687f---29749806673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4b996741b5ba8814807baeb50f2269/37474295543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffbe229b681c04e98ecff71cf4ff5f5d/98491310444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/3009443579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a276d1388fba112e02d85f03c128b3/24612949086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210901170532_vc3o92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/52101858867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/40897026964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blogsma.com/files/baxomuzurivitajetoralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084440ce2b6e---87206982869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/sibokufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870ac37389d---jefogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca05a2320e889219e22b9c92a2b39dc/63788003980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpd25ufa6efpam67461lpov4l9/radetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35feaa293d68386c72b915e18847edc/9999679823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpqqo2ebi1t7689m9fbi3fhckj/lukuwemifukagava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/winarime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=notice+of+termination+of+tenancy+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000d1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 57819acd474a6adb8614398f92c80cb0c968d3b1c0bf630bf3a48ef4d3940ab9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8B 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 3fd03cc5a40ca18f70d6eb6ab40706614347a765d1a5605db8d73a1c21c8ec50
font_02_sfnt_off000118af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1