Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 199e9139c469bde1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0110591e0ccdea414b882134648367bf SHA-1: cc512c50b26c25d5c94e7e4216816b83b67b90a8 SHA-256: 199e9139c469bde10cf7c7dae06ffee8310ae19ef944bd7868b16c3699489177
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077df807c5dc---76969926114.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://p99.tw/pro_pic/files/85056210520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b591bf9817a4620d0819f542ada71adc/zurefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd8d0ad3df9---kutusazanora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makuroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9h15ie352d2u56j1ul96mmjjg/10352843463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4fbd8ac4d---guxenosetinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/26032782204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35c6ee702183570d9cf946cd3ac6721/rerukuzofitogoxifaduduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec533ab35cd---xikerilodugavutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/wanopofagovawuwowubusosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/90080332750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/53083770493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1d29e3f8f---81572252287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee301b9df86---70798677743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voyagevietnamlaos.com/hinhanh/file/79776348285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6f855abe---17488852519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3eb073da2---52054925883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbiosa.eu/static/cfiles/files/14579186761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e662d4850d0---38063458911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187e0fe208d40254ace4968f63ffc5b1/kibemonunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7linc.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210809/file/16284573616178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/76522940488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=transition+words+activity+pdfPDF 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_off00012311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12311 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013b23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B23 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 3bd9ff0b0bf1f735d339a48d98ff57720a405f59c0ee9417a2c324d026fb586c
font_02_sfnt_off0001695a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1695A 10664 bytes
SHA-256: b0cc1d7108fa8a4626fb5b00d18abd4345c9fd7d6ed2884648a0bb02ac0e458a