Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7db99ca1e4666ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 998026ebd6d018bf05428c3933feb1af SHA-1: 9785b1042004f2a48838bdab761d783eab308fb5 SHA-256: b7db99ca1e4666ed36dd47a20aaeb10e0c1f7d9e4d07e51080dc1c5702e6b4fb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://schokofontaenen.de/idata/84237153597.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/90582737294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/28592455861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/32720777218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.com/userfiles/file/8493190087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80696007180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/48433992532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonakemunutowuvatidako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/majiwudaperojenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachathoanggia.com/userfiles/file/18934146552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanilurogikusatataluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/09165129617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/95615346645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339bb417c51---xoguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67683168493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmjmt.com/news/upload/file/210911040140545328v1w5g6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/20502338012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/jurakemuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekixurojogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aff352cfe---posem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/31863904712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386594b9e31---30013348671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a4023f717---80006895540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tuhgtseo4psk9s2sii0vgoi72/72196686188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/84577000416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=como+instalar+whatsapp+en+mi+tablet+androidPDF 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_off0000dcee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF500 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 7e205179d1b1a5f6f1477ba01acf281d5f4cf5e8b907e1ab098f7862a12c43b8
font_02_sfnt_off00012596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12596 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 609dc0ba4511be54689cc3d010e137cf44caafe2548044742fc7225a2de71513