Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99957cccf5c0885a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:02:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a2f37785520f9a46167ac9e36dce85d6 SHA-1: dbf7d373cf057f300efb073ee2937bea73f63d8e SHA-256: 99957cccf5c0885a5641f777df6b6713c0c0b61b65710de3c8a2b38dd5d2bf26
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL findings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56fee1339b---39631274778.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/97398603903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu3auknj0j8daru8o3l9963oid/70557063099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosapozalebafijugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/83271839872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd853c511d---sibagawivesarazafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mokakowegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe4c3b24e5f0160ce43b716d44ad70a/73209860900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/kizojesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1329016bc---56350294678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773d52bfd7f---16925563825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/39450413197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/28895291569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk7djh20kktovmveiebidql052/wofilufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86h881qoslhb2n3me7k5ej2ri5/86179747986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/nasagolodefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/karakipabugibulubemuliser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/77315905140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64288c2c358559f9e3f596eac2c8ac3c/sakudopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fulopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917daf0e765---dadubigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/38606383558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/87747180044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=point+of+view+anchor+chart+5th+gradePDF 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_off0000e060.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE060 10828 bytes
SHA-256: fe5ddbf528226d67a6a6990e93117e2c8312337d547df8d4fcf575d668497373
font_01_sfnt_off0000f939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF939 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 685efa7cb99dbe6b0ef1a828379cfbfa69b4922b65e4dc481319a722b9781325
font_02_sfnt_off00012a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1