Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99e9c5801c96dde5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 23:02:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5c0990718e1c6803edf7d8d903a11ac3 SHA-1: 78ababe357a0d5d18e6bf701552e4045cb49fc69 SHA-256: 99e9c5801c96dde5f476837417860060680748fe85bde354057f67ec2022192b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links on potentially untrusted domains supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://progin.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5654851948.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c6c33f75c---11626237505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1da38ca0c47c042ff6a0079c6030b27/28309263593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/89485521623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa1tfdumc4m8v4pnnkqmfmlvm7/wukuximewavivumesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfk1969nola.com/clients/873000/File/debabepakozirukapidanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/rawedijujelilivudedelibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d8b35e7d152f06dd60d0143ce8abe1/30520741444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/janexegeduwekogupuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106110854453686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6543a16a9e7efe32603ec0411aab2733/kiriturar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c48ccde78c---27060293074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/koxejatibasodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/77001846398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b26b9d03b---bogudavexebefixuguraduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/627503dc21ab699b814b42a893fa5d86/39754476821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixoxozefuwomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47170046318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/rususoregaxalifapaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/55439501468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/20077013591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/jegavisaboveneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/vowiwesiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/titugujiruzizijubedunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=computer+networking+tips+and+tricks+pdfPDF 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_off0000d3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BE 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 6f481d783739b79b7440c71a6dbbf0ffb9628b93d18ab1d206888fb66780c519
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFA 11228 bytes
SHA-256: a96ef074ce65c926b5a1562a99d38d7d7e3416ab872508bd5d7627884cb5b5a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11930 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1