Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a99942b5b34605ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:12:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 27ce7554cd1b138bbf281b85ec992d3a SHA-1: 8f4fcfb816bfe7a2802536dc97b948b7430eeba2 SHA-256: a99942b5b34605ced053ff99324b8c7be91c9726ba83cdd15aa98dd10e5fec1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jayantabhai+ki+luv+story+full+movie+123movies PDF link annotation
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/7837571370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22384889456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/94358014839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/22314456935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/18852518757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b9a924891---59169013123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80319035112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphamarino.kz/images/news/file/27189656018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613b92f3ae823---zufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/xuvagedadesapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kaguviwewadoletekudigided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/69166893008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisitukowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunarizotuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/95585448921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalicorne-hotel.com/userfiles/file/59802269353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geoiu92npb649jnscgmp5irib0/45142558131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/37063591795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/watubiludone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitycare.com/FCK-UserFiles/files/26955626418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/mujuvekarapinopitupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babajopegifumub.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_off0000c48f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC48F 17688 bytes
SHA-256: ac48f46a58a01f94df1657979689eca7eb69e06f0befd12fc9ab468bd9086002
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF6 11324 bytes
SHA-256: c87ae890d8959ca6e184c18351765dafdb74a5bcce5137ca6527fc844ec36792