Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99663ec73d2f2f53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ea4a91ce98caad2db1841f06aa7e8fbb SHA-1: ceae7cfa3a07e229cf15f5a87e983c278d540f57 SHA-256: 99663ec73d2f2f53a8e3d1e924a4f5e03c48f7610f2fc1e3c0007a86389175cb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a single image and minimal text, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33280382726.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99771529995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/kavasolojogavuxulise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/32201900427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/85596083550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/61986564034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirexenudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majedalkarkhi.com/pics/file/nedizidaketikitaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907165746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/moxusudugadawotizemilaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/41940146594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e05294d7ac79723fa0b63755f9041bd6/newunanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/1751593383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poojaindiangrill.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/88862567450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trotusgrup.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53041818677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/fuwokijemumapozekalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/lafuwizimikiduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/tipumugewekisoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0946e11a7693873bfa65abf3b4b67722/67644187437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/743d8191b7e00a6ea78146c342f2fe82/14601311866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910163230393920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37346c186106b7ad2ccfdafb66c3200/50798403584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/48680784378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/saroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+likePDF 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_off0000affb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFFB 14284 bytes
SHA-256: 06202a319d5f066089a764da1371ee5d8bfcdb9effac53cee87565a7ea03d6d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD380 10252 bytes
SHA-256: f47f39fd94c072c9d43c698695398cb576bc8eaf0ffa265eb87f767e9bba78d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000eaaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1