Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99e0ac68e965b298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:32:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5f6d4b47bd9ba75ab669248b8c2d9594 SHA-1: 55ad35f5bea535b63fc8bb46c2ba3df2cc4816fb SHA-256: 99e0ac68e965b2981b1fb48f356adb2dfaf0ea88fd8ce3deaf7a7cff5081e2f8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also indicates the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, a common phishing tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/59510688129.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/12343616926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazinoxuvesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907050407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/96877725894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soosanfix.com/upload/fckeditor/file/17913389010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asclyziarskyklub.sk/userfiles/file/xaxavodisefezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613babb98ab16---44795300396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cndc32n5b3rrf1v0d9cv8vvuno52a0/5479904872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ogarumirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/72188258212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijatajidazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f43d6b3337---68759660421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/verobiwojomodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itscebu.com/upload/file/20210903024658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/45203409287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134491b0da08---15971291450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/3955370773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210902210401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b2a50606e---1218108987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/regewufugelebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukisinajotaputaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11461959846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+scanner+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000d8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BF 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 251d7e21e97ab8e22c7cbc32b800ef70c6b28e2a28efedcee277c4184a27d4de
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001097c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097C 18056 bytes
SHA-256: abebd3715bc513ca0fea3c3a2a3db07c3c81fd9ed94a96bbf0c3a7ab02c5e492