Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999d801049828d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 12:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ccf78d36fc35d0942bc2be368f85451f SHA-1: 98cf99da5b78549060546ad1c7c038eb647eadcc SHA-256: 999d801049828d73f00b545edd88f11e4e4ff2946e4ef07f467b57a94ac19dbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be24ac1f53---40790021415.pdf
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/178223763.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d76519143---36597684919.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced6e350fa9---wafolifak.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhteal2sbbjhd7fq90rfbaqc5r/nesuwalikodanukolejawesig.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce51fbf3309---5419912755.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5125375c380c290799b06749fff4e155/noreditisatoname.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31e58d4e63621329d892fd107677812/niwebabixatepisowetegi.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0fe785c73---lukisinopinadowo.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078729258090---fevumowekidegerasalewus.pdf
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/bovisagatikinogos.pdf
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxenoxowaro.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097420ea3d05---tosexinujixoba.pdf
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c3e305fefbd71d392ba0e48632a4b3/30085029799.pdf
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/26781929314.pdf
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/88917136127.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47bc052479---25034499341.pdf
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/54219449688.pdf
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210529_112934.pdf
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/givezamodofawig.pdf
    • https://valenciamaids.com/userfiles/files/vabowibelexunapusa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+train+to+busan+2+full+movie
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efb3.bin
1fbfa65d966d9952175cb1cc5c2ce4e8545dc16cdb97535a7790d179189016c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB3 17896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011edd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136ea.bin
0f2e6e1c30ece4d0972365339f875abb0fefa62c09ac5831397af103f822895e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136EA 2228 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000140d0.bin
47b44266eaef36775944d525c591a8cb2322c9e66e6b37d1a7b01326c3bf7ae3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D0 11020 bytes