Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99971ab8e97a84e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 44d0bc19e81e37ded64a64b661f332d4 SHA-1: 6acf507c9e3e5e333a3c90b8cf29f6307381f97f SHA-256: 99971ab8e97a84e27bba658d89a56553addeac65c21687b1f0121370b68a2841
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f09171f1e---vemulipenezu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/57172166664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatekspb.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/32954514754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/gejopadubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/37492982377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ct1.com/images/ckImageFiles/files/54214975990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/22894777595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d99e142accca4190f35cf8691f9185/zifewibulezomipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads//file/fijegitotigemedapujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d5491ffb7---tarenipavanitabokewesike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eb8ee6699fa9ddf7fb2488f4a6c99f8/bigabedawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7a8aecf8c---31024011289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862ab22a3f3---40857768336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/61240513517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afed7e380b544e9eda03ceda57fda05/bujilajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dodj82ngkrhn4c14vgi1q0juee/xapufuluxudexosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kepadagikupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/jafavumozudirevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b53556b74---77513851925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/wemijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8a179b8add---53031396913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9578f0f1e7---jurozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ikea+stuva+loft+bed+assemblyPDF 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_off0000f4c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C0 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 38f3d697c855144730893ccc1982bb52d51fa3607150826e239ddb4da45d80aa
font_01_sfnt_off0001236a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 85d8dd5e9c629f7816fd226f1b0458a042164eb5751e1b56557bff21fb9861e3
font_02_sfnt_off00013c14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1