Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999ebd28c0e705e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8016f4c98721de5e1bfa19a62710fe0e SHA-1: 7b0d826df19bed937265d4e35db83cccb2344b97 SHA-256: 999ebd28c0e705e6c76ef5b52466889eda740779493b5891438a545c5c9ee623
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents attempting to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=impresora+virtual+pdf+gratis+para+tablet PDF link annotation
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/7189767401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/romeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fabff0dede---91698711930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/dinumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92260e0768ae03eb35a8911f93e0c291/gemonaruxigutese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/66245021334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/47580663099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/37711459068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eed6e6aa7a372098414debbe1301e90/92159761174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7730e27c48---jutimojisakirujeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/31537678992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1626098513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/85449455602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/wuzoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/9622714167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rusalupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210819_66A01AE493358E5B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c6155d9eb---10418547848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/84c2bd73b30d6aab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/pisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c336af1f07c---xusepajaxovade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79168004547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083140309da0---61408176537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210802_112510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 19704 bytes
SHA-256: d97de2a15e5c522b1ae9fa8ca03e9a3766a5767b25c720f086560b919175ea6c
font_01_sfnt_off00011732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11732 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 861f440aeda9717cc94f30091e1049ce1ed32f2fbf0a0a5997f1a792f83584fb
font_02_sfnt_off00013056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13056 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1