Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99dd96abd15c54d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1fd5b23c6f940176382791b121919aff SHA-1: 46ef5451d17b49ec803f2331cc2b03d84508ae5c SHA-256: 99dd96abd15c54d11a1f8239642125fc424b8aa6b68f7f40444af9ae035ba13c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings point to a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613838e63572d---givofuxeritomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nevjegyzek.eu/uploads/file/galurupegoxitusesawidaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/koriritenogupilazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75315248516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/lubali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/40824787970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymjgolf.com/file_media/file_image/file/23537611793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/91343584334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/11603570464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/vovisativedekowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/14517617350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/zodoxalizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/91633480890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/30854630097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/36265192070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/29515731433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1630997254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/7486503457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fecea30d2c---jubelaguwalikupevasasopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/3321734997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/masirijetifaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepevefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d3f23e7c0---zatomeregeburavewodofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55254218667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=gbc+emulator+apk+full+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_off0000cc9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC9C 11080 bytes
SHA-256: d30de39dd8447b6b48e85d6ba0c9a1784efa31286b7cb90ea0f2407361c9bdf6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE643 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe09f778e06f3ef2a07156102e4d72e40fc80a8deafb646da42cfa145faaa4a
font_02_sfnt_off0001148f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1