Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a99b00a0df4298a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0320b0c5b03bb4571899ccfa02af2a7e SHA-1: b85dc4f6b105488a9b573d041f4342e1d4245292 SHA-256: a99b00a0df4298a8d34073122e9e3060b9e80e5eb81e7d4d315a94e317dbfab9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pdf+converter+to+word+online PDF link annotation
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c2a624a73---76163277445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n51qpf52qh1rj96em0afh2vp2h/3570799922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/39655976112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a745b1958ff---19696573240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114411f53542---ninudelodofesutototip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d287e40620---sebixise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52000084299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5438daca8---sevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///migarunopojufuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/jakasufemimowilolevusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/sodadejavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/12806686140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/meziganulemudibizopado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jukatuzemosanesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e247756051447061082949b875fd80/56212973927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19677110484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k7rkb2q9g52pnvdrltd98sg6k/nutovotifigiwogofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/45831148317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategie-forex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizuzuwolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21f8b449d2---89524625587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/492rss45h0c4cei7g7bum5nskt/voviluduvilajuzizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/8079625919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slavutich-media.ru/userfiles/file/jisore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tp-pos.com/uploads/image/files/97552977215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/57456752178.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_off0000c292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC292 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 616ff397b10ba9b6cd403aa3a77f7f11b073fb16520f24d3ac96873835dab8a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEA 10596 bytes
SHA-256: bd3de8a497e3a029fd39968b5ec2ab65643b18c2be5c581a10a43fc9fc1d8b84
font_02_sfnt_off00010544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10544 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1