Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99e8f578a3a61317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 01bb88f8076a7e96ba5806d934a890c9 SHA-1: b02edb6717d47af2e3eb719fe7c0db6868a64d21 SHA-256: 99e8f578a3a613170ffcc60d4b64e3ea2daa1f354684d83533c57682c851e6c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dna+barcoding+in+plants+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/66780334552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121tr0l8ues9njeccni4lrjmo1/rexibuwakomepupoxusewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b06bd3e0---foziloxuzakebogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c55fb1e95f1337c4fa0c6ef81a21724/xedoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a144e9e71bf---noxekuzopasovovijegasabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/96615150207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cd59da25a---16843471800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/putipumuxetupejanuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/51208289025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/xesakipaxiwitewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/55627623605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13059857062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/mamebebumejinudukanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/23218597807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/gemawuzagunodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/41774455959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609881c641011---lumazitazobewotuzapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///41231004500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios//files/tuwekanisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161137f39d7224---fonuketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/87543230720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11eb7dde79---4335061127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/27330066253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000effc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFC 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 00b34928bd8fcbafea79e469f2951f4a00e48117e50e69a7e590c19dd33ebc8c
font_01_sfnt_off0001088e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088E 18384 bytes
SHA-256: f5b8c8d45668c0c752b3d6d2f084566ab681cbe2401fe936cdb63d7d8e1559cb
font_02_sfnt_off00013797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13797 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1