Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9999163d3d91f1ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1cb890436ad42ff007da820ff72d06cb SHA-1: 367e79ff9ff167bbe317b835f8856b37367c8651 SHA-256: 9999163d3d91f1bad293d850eaad61b535f88fd3541278b183aa348d3ebd008b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a downloader or redirector pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735348e18e---11307199988.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35d12b9631---56460898290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0fa463abc142a83fe1836d9376fdbbd/95519970230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc06dd7271ad3a3ad7feee7aba11f5f2/vabasanitulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofvuqq6qgbv62d4tf7c3165jvv/govunedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e95a0e6baee26a54c11b0373d034e0/19006807176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xolipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/takizinexukemowepesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/11730516510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef313e5897---42864642631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/16355409793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80cj2da0vk49hpp5kgmu4ebb6o/jisaxesikezaforomasipijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/maxexefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovowupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/67186324755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/63761013988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_91B669363338FCB9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4arbemk30to853a8r4jvhdr652/wulizeborobefozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/167b2e6ae95f416f6a7009eee84b19c0/migupobafejodadijazuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc307e33373cb9086e5a85de03d26427/59116947684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/tupawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1c6dbb78c---kilaresad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=and+the+cockroachPDF 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_off0000f240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF240 10232 bytes
SHA-256: cebe4089c2dbebf5f2dc04758170d7de89474f6bdd32faba1a03b6639d6680c7
font_01_sfnt_off00010930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10930 16824 bytes
SHA-256: f954a496f2b12a6839afaa4bf320a2e63e5696edd9ba8e5bbbe94aea605bc857
font_02_sfnt_off00013504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13504 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1