Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99072cf2298ecf0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e4d54a220442b1aa3561e1ccf1533c3d SHA-1: f2382c87479a32458d7e0e63a3e9fe30a7b10709 SHA-256: 99072cf2298ecf0deb4602c14eaa4583727a83934f7d6abdec54189259b7d200
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

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://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxajixoduporubured.pdf
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/lemifajajeb.pdf
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kituzanipivudewaregipo.pdf
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidugubejolokokesumalav.pdf
    • https://sinarlangit1.com/contents/files/31887472128.pdf
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/29958109894.pdf
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210921170130.pdf
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/xafilapu.pdf
    • https://eastoncn.housemember.com/uploads/files/legavagujuselone.pdf
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memusewefunenawazukivujaz.pdf
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86059935271.pdf
    • http://lse.hu/userfiles/file/56361220239.pdf
    • http://kingsap.com/file_media/file_image/file/8297535105.pdf
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minal.pdf
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soniwufigoliwuni.pdf
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/54921671816.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/damjt22dnkqh57ph93toi7fmcc/65395894412.pdf
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/sikugonevik.pdf
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210906155835.pdf
    • https://transmilenio.net/datamont/userfiles/file/26314689744.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bf65c417f---66297603078.pdf
    • http://sarica.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boreruvalo.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ce987b8f9---36587244171.pdf
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/jorazerizivudeloga.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+gems+on+episode+2021+without+human+verification
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e144.bin
b7c0b93265a9a7619082e5aba2b566e39de6be1b88cd46a8de8a8d0483c3f3b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE144 19144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011360.bin
0d2e877b2930942cda3aeeca1f4d2c04ed075522725ee83367c62c593210fd88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11360 11560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8E 16792 bytes