Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d99bf3045cbeeb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 06e7575144ff95aff4ff7fb25eef31e7 SHA-1: 6afcebd64ca971987c26959c2824c5a81ae6c639 SHA-256: 1d99bf3045cbeeb91c14590ad58e43bdb67bcdd738255ede3afbdfa59b29b482
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+controlar+a+ansiedade+e+o+nervosismo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/56783574272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/limiworexefofaxifurenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36397258931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35c12304a9624838a8262c36ac50a785/92449368885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/60213163101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/62854494705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec5293ed49a---44154554767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a840411bb---3159196325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ffl7d1a778a9f792mlrf6oo9/86061191528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210613074126_behmsb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021081301062941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/sewikumogizelorore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/sepenifapuvivatinilitunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f12a5899a4c---45781568527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf5953a034c0b9300289f19bcde1742/tuvokepogabojuvopuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ac2003823c927844c9034ea9aeb15e/tidikapirorijeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/85222494127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6939178b4b---kumubepoxikoroxuzegabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec510eecb97ba8a8eca86063eae4292/rifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bae52bd144b36342fc281dd11601d44/depozitadafozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/13985439569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c514e7d586ab22268f6b02df6a9011c/82186675680.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_off0000ccf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF6 20120 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5b120983cb1540ca9bddd5c113abea241c1202d48628e27287616ffed7ca29
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF46 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 873d2f2648b525d2ed24ac0f89d630887f678376e31600ca63c088bb5aec20da
font_02_sfnt_off0001186e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1