Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 899161fd3f7da00a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 541b23ccdac9589073e854758d0aaafa SHA-1: b1d11256f73ef2dd01e9df892aa7399bdc11d087 SHA-256: 899161fd3f7da00a2ff208510139f8bae954ee41735887dfdec7824e1ddfb663
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of numerous links, including those on disposable hosting and utilizing UTM parameters, strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious or phishing sites.

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://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulc3k004uip6e43ip1u6brlla9/kukokafexubeves.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khv33s1pcec3cjr0as7h41cer1/zibalizovovogajutofovafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moweforajageduregim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/622223615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612177878c439---75196669083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b23c5ee96b124997870d550829956e8b/pogamujinetolegunawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/16710465321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/82895535250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd79814378f3db948f6b21373439312/79929220064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210901/file/16304286318095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majekixezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/73043523817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/vumifogada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f9db03f39---47326499231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/gisulikixiwarudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6386805f24d7a9c807ac0ad006f96121/marozogezosobila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/nidudorilakiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ab14343d---gubosutivugogorumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/18337982600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/wiguletapizomolivuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht3lg3ue8v3h95di3i3lt4vvb4/64032798821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/napivijopofavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01d014c006---94569546608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/12246980437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=fraud+risk+triangle+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_off0000cfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAE 10720 bytes
SHA-256: d0cb17a7593f7632859bfe326310e19005ed8c8736e4fe7fea01206b49235920
font_01_sfnt_off0000e821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE821 18748 bytes
SHA-256: d5ae693c9093893f789c56cdfaeb549a0b7f7b83f522a06dcbe43ba6502daedd
font_02_sfnt_off000118c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1