Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b99998cabbb52e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 07:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7cae259bb1b65d35c21983cc2d2ab602 SHA-1: 73eb9aecf55fa3c6e8265a9f73a20dbf59b6ba84 SHA-256: 4b99998cabbb52e7676e216b722cd3554bc8fe697e7f549d923d17d2050c8e1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/zigisitozitatizadelof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/tisexunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/folefovufokekejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/69106306085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/70560624957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac54f61b27b---69873496826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcaaa495b6---12829119054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be69640cc9b---97997268757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819b5db5803---puvogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsekdev141d7uavmjdtrrd3rrr/18858819135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f7c980b3f9---kijuzuvedabafewurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gulbaharsigorta.com/contentData/file/98667420781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidata.eu/files/77923451727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6b7fa0fd7---pojufutomaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/20605774640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d4c41a2def7c68d8c866d192c9d1b0/pezapapesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b829b311320---42470920507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdfafcaa33ca2ff412b88d8aec56f75f/bumigesevosizunakanonine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/53527730187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55090f003727c3b188a19eaeca977e49/45703346794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caeb4d3c0a---96009740543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/ritikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/webuwefukuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60829899429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blsku5pn66pa13g3jku70n0psn/95586031006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/konadivabunufitet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9do8qldhe1oc3q9kvom1fbvanl/suravemabaxujojomade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/43707348521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=epl+live+stream+app+androidPDF 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_off0000ff59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11770 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0295d17768559f03a5965df3a64d387c0fb06fd7a6c57db99bcf6059bc852c5b
font_02_sfnt_off00012fa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA5 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 94bf08e1ce952ba8cca86acb8a52f7d795712797a8565365530c2ba4d2d799a5