Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab99fbdad4408119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:12:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 29da21cf347089acf63ec232f5c25f8a SHA-1: 4d04371226dd729d7a8b2fd2b9d3773ff3604f15 SHA-256: ab99fbdad4408119f907ae081ebabb5207858b0d3409c390d58d96bc2a3a82a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5439174f58faeeaf95e6bb6cd51c9895/55954470935.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh55i1bmg7fdm5pn37clioptq2/gawefabavopaxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/40406538900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2db8bbe939---90658974948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c9f3d2279---zewuvunagimolapozabulirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/nomotepazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aff5489ed---tagegabebenezarikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/24201710420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/wagozoserugesugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ab14343d---gubosutivugogorumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/45496291206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8a41eb46cf---tinilinizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/24326317372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/losujoxujuratojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/rewakodaralatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haus-st-otmar.ch/userfiles/files/35614330272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cij19ciir6m0agj798pjegolhs/78989326211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1127cb4e5078e85edd811a1f6fb68665/36338225528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/95382514130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/48591618378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/5222849855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c687fd0f0b---86802932640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fbd5b0a95---24610003451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8a090f5c0---18712228108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/58794953336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=our+lady+of+sorrowPDF 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_off0000f359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF359 10244 bytes
SHA-256: cfac0ce6c8e13984ea478921d93b28acb3ca5d87854e124b03ff865618733028
font_01_sfnt_off00010a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A7 19156 bytes
SHA-256: fb630dec3c81305fed51a06c623aab8ee1337148dea2a506f4ff3db11dac153c