Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ba5033638b5ec3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ace2611f347a99def3734c8af44e27bc SHA-1: 9ce2bc1e30a20c016b61a02988e596382151c9ac SHA-256: 99ba5033638b5ec3a1b9df0195eaf6bca9c01969affd5be05cefa72b47856f8a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and one directly to an IP address. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs suggests the PDF acts as a dropper or redirector to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/majoziroxudejejoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lacgl.org/upload/editor/file/12532935817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/35546863488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/26398923415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difigomujuma.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d36924a4a251e94f975333a8c663f57/30599630905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29452350883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifadefopevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/piziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/zafojexegepavusifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/52577800244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pratham.one/file/87131497941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/zavitapafomupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60907ce30479415df8be612efcb22b92/72771263548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_67DBE8ABCD92AFC2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f51f6ea862---ruwapadutagiboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/51837163766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/5483225412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee093e2ef6---69607950230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/46591466032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/71680622120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210905014836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/68318838139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/35180290373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/93217063665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/51051289124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=antutu+benchmark+apk+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000e128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE128 17932 bytes
SHA-256: d77319f5d0a0468b64ca3d982a772c63ee53b25d3e30c7001a1ae139dd4d7cca
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9E 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 54de1fb9606005c29489d4c1d75cc2457b4154242f09b3866e7b8866f43b0a07
font_02_sfnt_off000128e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1