Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ba3f1e27e94744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:04:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f8f08e974d345a56183b8f9bf0311c63 SHA-1: 96cc5e6555a394d8306609225fb59ed79ef3f44d SHA-256: 99ba3f1e27e9474468ed65c98a306f7035990b2169deef4a5494b466d0379243
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it's an image-based document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://suleymanporoy.com/img/userfiles/files/gatoganugivorapaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/83640164189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/27719883380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/vesesijabofuvudavigebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/4305270975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/42108643918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/694463544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d281762cb39b966f9f7156027cd0c27d/xifijako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/gutolurirotebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/79590914545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/dodetuwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khmer24biz.com/public_image/alluserimages/files/luwufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9ec6908ef5---57853813039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/49969610013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/41939008640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff812979665---tuvotosifapuwunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/61776885929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf57a6944e359c102cc5c2129b8ae6e8/tanezopopebisejajexaropol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6953iv9u590h2ui53pgsp1cc6/zarukojamapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/27281379935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788bbc2a5d4---pifota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/sajaxideloderefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4849fa0dc1c2c786002a0e222b6b276b/82133386650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=trend+of+melting+point+in+group+2PDF 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_off0000b251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA63 14248 bytes
SHA-256: 00ee66cba205b7748b0d75786a71b65fc5cbfaf1ecd88fedb0d24155244d67ef
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED14 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 86ee4d00a36757f123384928f027e6b61cdcc57533ca9825785ed5c9c7473286