Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99cd7c383bdf2fc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 31fbdc060b2a5653e1ccaf63bcaf80ad SHA-1: f656d4242130d7dd58461572b59756ac6f071a05 SHA-256: 99cd7c383bdf2fc5dc7bb8d01a99693ce18296572bc43613b72dca3b72c7852e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites. This suggests the PDF is likely a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware, rather than containing an exploit itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/76940705182.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a923269ce61---nasamezatuwanogewenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/1498690000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/679331017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/87858053786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b712q2ehrg006odl823j0vvt0d/93993072302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/bubixejibopamaguwivibuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210821014343_ezgafg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b948e9a21---62419355040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c3fc5e356---tiwatemibureluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/61933869747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4d4d047ff---jumodipiwifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/33683934781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/62275956523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/gabijaxemazenafuzavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/69500617812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h24fdd6gi1ka6ir5hhuhtamff/fewevitodaxedasunuberur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90301cb76e7050902b766ecf3497c559/roxelafapikowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f73951cce9e---12321755265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ut1h245s8teepfolh9nqlnn3/tozikevonekitonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d5cjfj24prruiamkkjoo3fmj5/14495825387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/20612828741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/rasizatixofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=muscle+involved+in+breathing+processPDF 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_off0000e1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BB 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 48e9dbba8b0798f48d44fcb1926eb88bc511dabfd5537ebbc2674e35c03570e7
font_02_sfnt_off00012445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12445 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 562dd04138d954616b05033577e99dcc2c66019ff8909cf778404cc7f07c3524