Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99f1828deaec6933…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-24 17:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a4f86d96cffdee69ef6765c3c38340e SHA-1: 0a806d7e54675531c8f8dd964145f134e135ff18 SHA-256: 99f1828deaec6933bc41959e83c81316930133972d46df02c8ddaa67c3bc718d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains a phishing or trojan payload. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+puthir+with+answer PDF link annotation
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/20732852130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925882c8b87---44703455485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lucky-erotic-massage-bucharest.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/molevetotimegoxulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pntglgselbjv5fthsvo1v1b06/83967201860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3797b6fa456369e8b5f7162993ec37b1/37127032226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetypath.net/cms_images/36467770389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdd02ab11ea461c950dc199305494049/finezevivolapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbe4c44e01---84081860976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afb4134862e8a127711715989698d3cc/zuguwuzesobolezapevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/1073817457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bubaxuxobomemobegiduneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/niwenitukuwakamemekawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2a2062dd420c07c613f89cffd72eb7/bemopavedisuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogewogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/sofevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/39835365116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bcfa92e4e---76331020211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16292933814128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/41476562944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607247d5db002---22324069728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/jafefivobenoxipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/nefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1af3806233---wogasewakarirosigixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheilahancock.net/blogfck/file/tukumeminibamerubanaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themis-lex.com/userfiles/files/lujutuxoxunodimozogidog.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_off0001025a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025A 18548 bytes
SHA-256: 5a9ae726b4d30f604248249c3d615d51bfc1a5c133985ba4da6f1c81698f3930
font_01_sfnt_off00013303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13303 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 22f6374ca3ea28f27e0787b8edf5f2ae52bda800a5f92110c618f559dc35e57c
font_02_sfnt_off00014aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1