Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99fc4c5907405c4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9d5f001af16f0ce6f574d1bf39aa8f41 SHA-1: b34a2f820feef6b1aa1e1d47ccea262c0fb82687 SHA-256: 99fc4c5907405c4d23f55c16c71b967880ac22bf3ebcd563c1cfa7c1be54dca4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' heuristic strongly indicates that the document's content is intended to deceive users into believing they are receiving a prize or parcel, a common tactic for advance-fee fraud. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple PDF-related heuristics and the overall structure point towards a malicious document designed for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gnus+stock+after+hours
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/suwukijitutabeloteratevu.pdf
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/70610127211.pdf
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/39023457065.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607227cb2f2e5---sutagilabemabofa.pdf
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/20972907156.pdf
    • http://chiron-ventures.com/chiron/home/img/upload/files/2106171638176587904t93t.pdf
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/pipipumixifelirakofef.pdf
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/29604852186.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cb23a7587---29329336812.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/tavejevemomub.pdf
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/wasijemejomifanuvogubej.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfhbk4n1mn1ie0ml4ugklnsmr0/46778658623.pdf
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/penepagijefabube.pdf
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/pamunuvevodoperiwadufi.pdf
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097db6adbf79---zaxumowotujotonokoroda.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a36f95032f---9931566149.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bbf463bea---wujesu.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca396cfc70---zimoperu.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc708fd22d22c8a43950b87f8c4a1eb1/wezuduwuxesimaroz.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f315eb296---bovaxezuwenexabubifodunu.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf7c770b6b8afe994a4a232bf99225a0/79024364701.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f783f649bea37352cb6d521094c6634f/fonopa.pdf
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/33043257258.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8a6c32dfa3d2a641a41fc22cbf1ee9/sazurajegalobupipimadoza.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0db.bin
bb1e5dbd358bc2f095da73195bbf2df965152be1a1a66d8309e9682dd4e8a25e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DB 10524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120f3.bin
8fcfb8d63b3633d5f23fa3beb71288fc6162ac93e9bfba71fab951002d1c76d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F3 17220 bytes