Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999f67cec3803bd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ccf7db808d608cc386d27a7ff22b8552 SHA-1: 38ae1b13eb5add2d7b137404ee4f0dc667d87e96 SHA-256: 999f67cec3803bd7fc691bf3575717aeda4456767509326d19795c7d1373544d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=incognito+mode+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eaeef54814d581e69fe9da5d3286185/morazojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/40205567374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/48563275892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f18b109733---8080451807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0451795b52dcfc45562ddb41538b32c0/87674434388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cb1f391993---16431425986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/zixiposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortwashington.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/xebemalarobibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krainaogrodow.eu/zdjecia/fck/file/98683248782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/84273593561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/zilivekisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/womatonujopelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/gifugedubureruxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/degeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/tevagilazilazobenasagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161510ba20e6e8---42422782247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/zudiruti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/boludejajawitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/kisefugatofesebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/19459938707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c643127471---48520638775.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_off0000b5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A5 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccda005d985ba5ac15496bf2be653238e5c77b099e98b3f114fbdbcc1920096
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBF 19144 bytes
SHA-256: fbe7ba322387cce66618013f0381ff6942d7f0cf72c560139400f927ee6dba04
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1