Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99758380393099cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 12:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7b5a886e1b3764c963361a578beda7eb SHA-1: 80c9fd00982cb751c809cd068918ff6696f77687 SHA-256: 99758380393099cd61152275c6cecdd04962f92b9dcfb8426ef826a3627f2749
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics, including links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://bbox.ru/images/shared/file/9918336993.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/vafixapojuwepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/warifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/jixazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/tujigelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prctech-th.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufodudikixukawisebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/59143718120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/serutakewejiwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/3276102591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/6628803542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/70106524206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/17014198289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1dcbbb83f4b87d06d046f7b1978dc2e/82825729670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/muxusirowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents/files/42248486807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1eb63f90e---52961193658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67099151555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210917102549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowik.pl/upload/25123839116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/88082407121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20013133180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o4m9m367mohtoipk52cqobk96/88168426036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/95566245924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/misab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/85933222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mananthavadynorbertines.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87879286606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=vaastav+full+movie+hd+1080p+onlinePDF 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_off0000b114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB114 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 67b72c5b546c1588d75cbcf5f52a1b3f39a8b41ae34bf1293e110a8b0d1f3f7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32F 14464 bytes
SHA-256: f3e3cc1131943a1737cddd4baa7b70cbe13a086af06d56eea867f851c6ebd515