Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99034e04cbf9f1ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:37:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: df515ae69c204623d25e3132aad09c23 SHA-1: 65d0838b308e5df4337e9783d21d3d8dca511a06 SHA-256: 99034e04cbf9f1edcfcbbf145a6d12752f93d799101311c48856d58396516fdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0f37866da67759d951a6eece006cfc/kikirejonofegewumul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/rojodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8880c94ea4---lilaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caf-ljubljana.si/docs/99825436178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/fogebegomabikediruvupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b3f5b0bcf---65229829586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a238685a93---wigixafaroketejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/mezedofotazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df3cf2488c---jotunaxijopoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1611d4be1c469b---23667593776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g77vb1684osp1sld5aqlfp60ab/74055175932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/lemevasewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/pemidegatolusumuwemerope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/juxoleredelonedulomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/bavovilekituze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/74522087361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/48757155042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/vetazefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/bodosudifege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99a6464cf4---44373533188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/40783109222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9916b504---motuzatagonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b40f09b63132ebe6b034e79148816d39/difaxajojozexirabuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/kavawirafisozolazotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=polytune+pedal+manualPDF 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_off0000e157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE157 20596 bytes
SHA-256: a80d7016ba6cc3ac0fbd9024cd19357c361d852710a1e6d2e1fe92f1429805b7
font_01_sfnt_off0001176c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176C 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 546ae2ea7f640bd0b982a4a0554b524c859a737f19de13a4526eac8dc5ab729a
font_02_sfnt_off00012f0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1