Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999babd97ee25455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 116840058d385c58c3bfd6bd85057936 SHA-1: 92e61059fda6468afdc0eac06d3d188d932e2ab2 SHA-256: 999babd97ee254554c928972c93984e92e79f4105357729accdd7c005e141e89
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF document exhibits malicious behavior through multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document also includes an instruction to disable security software, a common tactic to evade detection. The embedded URLs and link farm structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prince+of+persia+3+download
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/tofodiraruvod.pdf
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/26370493287.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf1c0769e96c927cf70607fdc588914/39993516854.pdf
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66aa932c0d590ee40651ecebdda1f080/67313543219.pdf
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/povezesigovoxologi.pdf
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/buxasegokor.pdf
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/lajorevikuxofimabalafajex.pdf
    • http://rabwork.com/media/file/gufuxusogawaru.pdf
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/tapobog.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3803f70ed844d4f984de6bb1a04c8fbf/vugipogilubosexuw.pdf
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15507072050.pdf
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/32285731545.pdf
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/62286375209.pdf
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/56697755560.pdf
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisuwaginetudolenumabuzir.pdf
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futasekerisidefatisebaxix.pdf
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogisilofusirezewulekidi.pdf
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210903113809.pdf
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipeguxijira.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a8407b6b4---garojawijapupe.pdf
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/sokixakuviwuvexadojifudi.pdf
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/42572451932.pdf
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxuferavogokarazesunu.pdf
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/bejureji.pdf
    • https://ausztriasi.spawellness.hu/upload/hirlevel/files/11701072250.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_off0000dd28.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD28 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53a.bin
d1426285659167b09cc4193c2cad760e8dff44e91a9513f55b2002bf296e5d3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53A 18016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012465.bin
aa2dc387e36a03413a7a14cae577c654f6a354b058bcb98932cd1e45dd3adea8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12465 10772 bytes