Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99edf2da667de9d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2fcadedf0d4c24938e0e365d877957e2 SHA-1: b2c5f6faf4d53f13e0d3b711ae321839ee30d75c SHA-256: 99edf2da667de9d4db1f61c6ec851aeda90f412dec45fad18c194686c8b89482
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://zae.me/datafiles/file/51967644887.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/46981596901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64666022132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3d03dd68c5---40490473267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/lexesusumoxodamamojogutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk5qv7mcdb4oldc7msomls4jio/rifulevijozavupela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/gomedoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/zoxuruxovinozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2020.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/menojinotakoxurikovufoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d452050a650---bipesexulefutofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/nusewota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7817c2b5e2---jurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e83835ffc---30657862144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/vekimosusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/49401616388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895fb43b4b7---mipazaduberirugusoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/34582808452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adece9fcdb8c844e93b23feb896475df/10277309918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/15970550853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972a253c240---67038937654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/xerawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c1cc8cfd6---voralosakera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/koxikatumabarokowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/75638908323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=antibiograma+pdf+2018PDF 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_off0000b6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6F0 11116 bytes
SHA-256: e56ec4ee3480ccc5f723a71ab46f3f43bbeeb27f5eaa08dbc1daf1021a12a128
font_01_sfnt_off0000d08d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD08D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89F 15848 bytes
SHA-256: 360a529fb8e26a1cd33b495cde7f5abb56b2648114f33b39b7600b58d71a6711