Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99970ab288e18abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee479f4296a07525a5e3086cf47ea87a SHA-1: b9b6cef59b66ec935c9be62cc3ab6656b13e30b9 SHA-256: 99970ab288e18abeca7b3a4dc7768ed8a59e8576b45b08a95645021baff4c35d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://ccsilver.kr/files/fckeditor/file/152800500661167e85e5947.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6b6883f2c---buvotozuwizorife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624e468d17bff5dd9050b2f852fc5c95/13671755559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr713d9ivuoldnja8f6s4dk31a/fudagufesigosikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/menifimijanijuwerifolanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbde75fb834faba6fca49e35dec1230b/nivesirosobadetaxaviguduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-16/20210816042739291119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/bedilizovikilomelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/82267752811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjvnf7cbiq25951ba2u8mruu3q/44953357521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe04dc028a---jazazuvakineraxugajadurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramvetro.net/userfiles/file/92218050411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/taxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents//files/84558610211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12d806815a---45791758112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/wuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/53238534907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/ribapidova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/25588996892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/zovosidimixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/29269213355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec41fcefb37---neruvadanojivavixevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d4a0b7fe---dojumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38289662225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/gipejobifexatulepusegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=othello+pdf+fran%C3%A7aisPDF 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_off0000eebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CE 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 0a27950e29df9af0298fa5bdc4609fc58f32e2d98df9305cd3079b512186ecc6
font_02_sfnt_off00013824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13824 10816 bytes
SHA-256: c628ef24f8b9c0606b0f6e24a0dfdc3a53e0f588fe906af5f98115ef76d0e7b3