Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99261aa895a6d656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:26:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5e4c7ece68ab18eeac1bf3c796514413 SHA-1: 7194533e120d96fe0d431e2cd158a9bf924d70b9 SHA-256: 99261aa895a6d656f6ad47425e011738dca04f4889298a854d8dbd5845354672
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm used for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a spearphishing attachment as the initial attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/medesasipepebabajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/46467551777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zalosubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25772418aecea05284c2ca5ee1217b0a/31758307575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510044408666353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdaurosa.com/Images_upload/files/68877940213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f408924aec---9594619373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goddesshair.net/upload/users/files/marut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/5638935545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021052204222973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb25bdd798---97458604553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb5693d897---wazejuzegozopivoxitaxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/powomafumebezasigowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/fapukapusarizosurorotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8p1mjhq7shovcig6psur9fdp6/romejumizexabagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0d0db4548de87e7135364d8dffd8bd5/bulixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69c1c1be4626df2dddb2322900027a1/reropekoriwaxirozimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f7f8e3175---kovawebixojilunaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc8f919e72---9529767181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883896c12ca---ropuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35583484196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/gerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd85bf317f9---jimimumejeritek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ffcad6aaeb9f51d12dca10fe833b125/rafiforadaleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=molecular+cloning+3rd+edition+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_off0000b9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F7 16040 bytes
SHA-256: a79c9a2e2111d9cd86c677474d2f00f1482cf0493bd142555e635c03f5cd8b31
font_01_sfnt_off0000e325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE325 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 840d07a23296a874c38c63ac56a32c63ab4827b3e63aff923a0b2c1b9207f9de