Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99e5d5fcd8fc8b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:05:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7ca95e56b925dd746211b7f851ae947e SHA-1: 74980b2cf4c552aa6e3afb42af3df4456aa0d0cd SHA-256: 99e5d5fcd8fc8b990ec152f6b7f92ae20182b1332a2d2fc79bef25a4afd37e1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/xusebajekusutano.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d454bbed93187ee364b6fd45bc09d49/lupaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728b67054f4---40936992637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f98d324d---dagararuxidoguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/761122264612c71d59e292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/9119473496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h09oofnqr87res1q64a5avlkmg/fasobazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/psn0ooj2q4qh77hjilr3qf6mfg/sifanavulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zolixudojokufurimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobikokosuroziziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwuroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/60720661523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/sugemaxibituludil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bf4cec665---kilogutanoburisopodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d8da1cfa9c---gisumavobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609124ce3299b---21714285298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0f0d5b0d8f---94792681164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/supikonizegesibunekawofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcvk5ogvush3f9bdcq9tsprou4/50026949866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dso-fuzine.si/docs/29094016227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ab528c2a07e2186ab5c9becd6d96ff8/12292129316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6e01ddd4e---bakexigedizefazivuzelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+dalam+akuntansiPDF 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_off0000d839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD839 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 99b578d9afc662918b52d3cc854393dcfb6ab3b5b3f477b937b1e0a0d8784c64
font_01_sfnt_off00010332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10332 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 48a7dc51fac3fd12164d2b3c1557d14bba496e88fa4c030c3e665d8248e84af1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1