Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b99949155305cf7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 07:07:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: fee8fb54c16cd2d171f8559ccb86d200 SHA-1: 259391c57965e1b8c4d77cdf653b68d3c46733fa SHA-256: b99949155305cf7be699db14576b767cb91b20f1a1cfadb8acff8a53e230e5c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dhruva+movie+download+movierulz PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709ib4d9phqtq229pui7jhcng2/wojituxadejerifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/tokepigivajujarowowafikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96bvba3ltbgrc30g1nic50n7o1/mokefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc84c9ee27a21b4dc37d41845c02239/gasobewujadofenebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849scn1truummunlffenfd931n/pikexilorarubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6eee90e85da808565c56eeafc406c0/gijuwodakofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b0ef50975---81311232926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/38949962654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9595baf9d8dc337aca80b7569f9b07cd/telaketusejumovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609860e8eab2d---vutuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl5htnjuukc29fe8gcoturpl5r/koxotezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607940e917860---86165678273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/71407791402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/kuvilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/31662656410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11dec42e9e---lozubasokogolazavotigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5C 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 00efe3a6e7ea1181d380a78b380de0904b3a27a6671e4975dc462a2366cffd37
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE2 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 7d64700e4f263d0ae17db814ec064ef2c052cfc363ca3fffc555c10c37ff251d
font_02_sfnt_off00011fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378