Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99898cb34193328e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 05:27:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5bcaba71e840eca07d5826ba12215f71 SHA-1: 890cb06f3b1d31a999abaace7537661bd71e6b06 SHA-256: 99898cb34193328ef715a03c9bdff39f99ddef21158473a2340a5d2067213213
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other domains, likely for phishing purposes. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to lead victims to credential harvesting pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nation.fox+news%2Faccount%2Fsign+in
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e498d7494---joxipalesepovibefikegu.pdf
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap0fqch98l7s8fvbrdc95prfk8/50430322327.pdf
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/zefefesinasugenoninexog.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c1f2e61d81119017e718c2ef213d5a/18723941625.pdf
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/68444306604.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd531056647---zedoduxafodawa.pdf
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/vawedubotori.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7a31qpe1optd1iij4sb5rs294/44132987837.pdf
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/24342828931.pdf
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6674ad2425---vazarenujajakesujoj.pdf
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/silib.pdf
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/90049181593.pdf
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/24445901856.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b605facc84673afa465d40e506637d22/fasafokezuvuso.pdf
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/2811577154.pdf
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/lopefelemezuvasunajup.pdf
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/56624408654.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e65f87679---83793017372.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6765640821871f99bff8e51d24140afa/jofiji.pdf
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61887558418.pdf
    • http://onestudent.dk/userfiles/file/36347504697.pdf
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/21257191740.pdf
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/gukulixerupuvifuxavun.pdf
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/nevawufetisuxet.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emb8brfgild6dd6o1ncv476q56/73865952807.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/70492669755.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af867637e87---rekowipoxodosivexamiliwa.pdf
    • 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_off0000d9f5.bin
aa6b332573276783175b24f63860eecca80433cfcd7b1b0606e1c05d631cefa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F5 10732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2eb.bin
d682debf4e532b2780e03dbd2e7f248a8c83174ee613397f881a911e2a3d2728
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EB 16580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD7 16792 bytes