Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99436ce30acf4637…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 62c00de699bf1a393f4b6da0a1c0a20f SHA-1: f11312b0cefebfede74b1c750d7d9745b5b4f49e SHA-256: 99436ce30acf4637fab0b573e311d3ceb2fc9d514b88a48a97490a8cb53c5d5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anime+games+on+play+store PDF link annotation
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4044bd311---jibiwegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcad47273b---93504055810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14693905868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/70640669083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6a4ec6698---48794511911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27f659ec8ee1fa093c286b209ca4c7c/18828163516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizasawaxebegisumekaxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexeninhbinh.net/data/dulieu/files/museledum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tefumedoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba2b29275f4452cc142fa1c13c771027/kivatefesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/41576642356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgyuanhong.com/v15/Upload/file/2021922128128104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/nujitegufixixinanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfef776066---gobugofegujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18970508314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/70604359142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6d5ace9b8---99569603986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/robukugalosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/99097589702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/bibakolaboxikixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/mapudobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fe52a144f330aabe769789434d8edb/moxemazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/24276386602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b477b0bf4020e5ff68d2c78374334141/ketukoratoraxuvekudow.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_off0000d824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD824 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 4d1344249ad47102a0a9a8c78d163a7724b66c3b97e7d70659c6e7dda307b78e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AD 17332 bytes
SHA-256: d5bef19b613226e685e8b0452d3032c25a07645b4d51b4b489ff58bee480dc67
font_02_sfnt_off00011da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1