Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 899c7cc9067a82fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:44:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d3e50c0599dca169591597e187d2947b SHA-1: 132bef607bbe4484c6ffab2e05ca7de5f93ae5bc SHA-256: 899c7cc9067a82fcec3af04ebe259ef715b61ecee054a182ed080c9a39152694
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document's structure and link distribution align with common tactics for initial access via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=activity+life+cycle PDF link annotation
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/temaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/29613162892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/bekotulovajuletukipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/60465915183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/67626055416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/34662973327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/sibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/lodatobagesomeduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/bikalekotedideza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/79893752834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/tefinikivinifikipomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/kitutivejobivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/busenupofolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/kipiwiretatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siemreaptraveltours.com/userfiles/file/61012261784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f106badd45---niwudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/65668406825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/99495062212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/zeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdadre86tnoi2e9k9si3t4saiu/85874824040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/80966963080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073c398522e3db4b97a24035a37794eb/tapukoki.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_off0000ea28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001023a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023A 17432 bytes
SHA-256: a22468c925411dde80ab4f83b5a78fda8f495bddf7fd571466f1ba7bfd222364
font_02_sfnt_off00012f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F53 9836 bytes
SHA-256: 963df59650d9c439a2ba22ee10a730de1123fb4a3d79336abb48d850eb7a0cb2