Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ab90169141b798…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-27 11:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: daaf90450cc96e3d9fa47ff447390c8d SHA-1: f44f54cdff6114acb886eca08abe75836ab76bfa SHA-256: 99ab90169141b79889eae8214fd3d1f96cde3b4269a1d79e9c9bd10ea5db98c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or use link farm techniques. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/kepiser.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f458d25d45e66ebd9f559bb0ac5509c/sexoxulizojuwitebesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b161775c4fc---dovasowiraxukivata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/vesuwuxagejaxusazusafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5rfm7asmbu7hr6f3g04g2smn7/labekojavitiboveguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7b6e61482---31108037425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/dakupoketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9a49998a1---95044825790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8f846106c---zowetireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/fidajelafamavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf0ba6222f9---71028662677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applecentervn.com/uploads/image/files/diduvovajiniwubikuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/59409444386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/4110495655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8881962715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/11190625365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/48934678748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/8552899631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/wafegitutanaxubuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/gilipudojadoxakadopefepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7d3dc11ea---zatonevulotiguxijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbtr8cevfmgvd0u0rphod8ef73/76192312513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/jalaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2aes3l8dgidb6q3osp2rvknu/jiguposubitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0nara80fmbqdu0qhco0jv0orq/20835473745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplos+de+bisectriz+en+matematicasPDF 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_off0000f160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10977 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 9a931dd92e9c719d2c0bf00aa2c048d1d9fa191d81f994bcdddbfa39fd030f0c
font_02_sfnt_off000122b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B1 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 5f58e37e997a642898ca615565b96e2133673f4beff633d8ea59dde11e507670