Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99d5ad5d5e0548ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3287b0ea7f82a4b2692b7ffab7da9710 SHA-1: feafe92e87c779ad32e9169718afd5825b6b33ba SHA-256: 99d5ad5d5e0548ff11b15c9d3f0baad1d79e1c11d0fe4f86f61934d7322723f8
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://mc-opony.pl/files/file/gakifamariroxumaga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufimafosinasugexewidida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/kakulepijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/bowotelixudine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brbud.pl/userfiles/file/59459785196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/6899894285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.info/upload/files/tajumekavesipitarunojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n3lmpavcnhghv6k6v6s5ti1g3/81092499024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426673af324---79960474665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sctiec.com/up_files/FCK/file/28055072076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2fa2a31109794daae181a473c9f6d4/ginevagarobeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edisonprivateschoolbeta.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81124848738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/rovegiwugemasuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/milujuvinixubusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rama-sp.com/rama/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93616152033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/95963576077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbassisiprovince.in/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogejipobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/47320743925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/41044346167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141df98e13a8---fuxulatutivofagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67a85db00bd91a653c277d8ddd5e1e1/29927772500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralteplostroy.ru/content/file/7742502843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodogs.ru/sites/default/files/file/30895816869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/2624989587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+obb+filePDF 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_off0000dfc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC3 19100 bytes
SHA-256: ac63396af864b6b4e1f2283dada85bed47d6d5314005000bf38dbf50d73216b3
font_01_sfnt_off000110ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12905 10060 bytes
SHA-256: ce29c0a6e189fb1304df40677b51800b0547ec8f97efa0c1cf76b78cb51e2d7c