Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99fc972e8e4e3b16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:16:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 491e21ffd43422283523269254add8b0 SHA-1: facab230394418ba0c6763dd2e5b93b2b3891605 SHA-256: 99fc972e8e4e3b165f0012e0d5052b84d41a6f1acfbc04811ebc1e10f4d2e391
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of redirecting users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613180cddb8af---94121885944.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210530053613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35e6591af3624a3d25c215ea2261bb8/98824706218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t67h06bnoudufluib6ru8e50q5/zijoxapoxutovasujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqbeaba9ur6m1a9de48gsgai2r/14995547681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/7260055546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1cd149c52---11991366621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94877254124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/34063936697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/xebagobixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/6802185799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9173f66932---fujeduzamadalaxexutujaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/60785161941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30ff5e91b8---juzabebugadepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724dba590b1---44755210355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/wenunevamoramivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/86431107001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e9bb987699---vadatezosazubituseteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39532603968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownsfamilyreunion2008.com/clients/81208/File/84362280749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/lojigokogofufikixoluvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazefawidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80au9ic480c9mud79biojatggv/ziromusozipakavawegowunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713beb32351---2428258464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4f867b03d4c494d9ce4656ab55433e2/tafivoresuzafiresukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/31241624263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=moral+story+books+in+english+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_off000104dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DC 18884 bytes
SHA-256: 134ef4c1cbaeff6a83e5a584726d00244f3bee965eb339262aad9effbd2ec7e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C97 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 61e30d386caca4acd2af0f5884e9eae4cfdc97a6ddd9c414e6c70f3bd5109880