Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99bca8d501d822a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 18:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3417f56e5ff10561a07ddd5ac9888fa8 SHA-1: 92f54f478095cc5c76ab4e35e22a290906781e65 SHA-256: 99bca8d501d822a1475392e4f367a2ec985be8605420bb788bc0ee5270c69f01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the malicious intent of luring users to download additional content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/31093801937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/15698542269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fiv03octdts8s7cd3jv08jfk0/70527588649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/tejuvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210518084813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/zibosukodirefawibaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emqtmvrk805o7ttiufl8nh4gna/3017861400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/keworirawodowazefokipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jb0erim7hq1iic8n1lp4rdnfj/fubukibutufovokunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/66128169411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/najesowepadimisaseroworoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/dusoregusexuxabosimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52082baec117a2654f9a1d31cefdd2e8/lanegunuxotarazanidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cea78d3abe1ff3d3a2f75f8b968b0b0/saruzajovegetozubebebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/bejumozokeruxexagasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8e43c70d5---zirilokekufemunefepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/zalezojowawimibatidapigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1386d890e0---pasezazadimisufema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrokentakifinan.com/resimler/files/loxonoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703191e523f---wimiwefabibatekararafonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/6805904896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+vowels+pdfPDF 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_off0000eef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF3 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2d9c8654dbb58117ff1d4b4358227b2f22742e578509af08b207a1c0806a99
font_01_sfnt_off000106c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C7 21560 bytes
SHA-256: 00bb3fd32e7e2d61e56eca17a0acf266bef81d4fab543c6594978c4eeb330a66
font_02_sfnt_off00013cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1