Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99f756ce8e953080…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ae08f7ad7f0e5bef9e5084a87a624d36 SHA-1: b6429d6da66f2e215f435f4e18e93afdde1baadf SHA-256: 99f756ce8e9530807a1cc02a116c2cdbe2e0004b429ce6737ba5ef9920dc0bf0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thank+you+letter+after+surgery+to+friends PDF link annotation
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720e72d9d1b---soxemagetokamagogunelebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22e6949d15018702fcfbb5f4a5e455dc/bowibajanipevarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/fimuramekizofibazose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21339c027ff78cb6693ccf8049566096/52448595693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/8215702276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3199d985b9ce0c752cf04d3319510b2/tifarexoxufelozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/41652595592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jc1l473nim9hvi97956id4ofp/67888890510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105011037097051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b2e5319a8---sitirafemezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/66000092641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8at94r65bugnvkb9bhls01gcq1/91500519057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7723f6ee72c6ccbe6bd278fa7fffa75/21523980529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669bd37818985a79c85156e99e0b273e/66489000532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/77546237756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro034irq8mn8tr8dnqsdbh90i9/76302858911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/wovosolixujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eda7f5575e---20103703142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/48042797296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0404c67b4---88084332070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b477f652bb6---37667149709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb92cbaee---kugaxarofujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2upaugvraickhqj86ah0mqlfvd/63953727423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/62504216199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7616bd5ac4---51009264700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5cedaf911---gaxidajavididowoke.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_off00010402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10402 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C14 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 165fe628110152fa766308d14bda106754d1a6fcdd74f385896362b571dac010
font_02_sfnt_off00014c88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C88 10900 bytes
SHA-256: f8a3bf18d30e062eac606a4d84d0d18f2d341ddf778586d0d926ccbe934cddf1

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