Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b99b4cc1975505ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 17:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e1f6cec4eda553b61865fec1d1a7fc41 SHA-1: 7d12e01ab193ce63152b0dc6f30a9d5b07c64f36 SHA-256: b99b4cc1975505baa720e15604b5d16292779dc1d198a50ae76a9953ab501ddd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17795677f0bd395ae78b1733d3f1ea90/xananomuvaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23230313194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9e56202ac9e3d5a5af2111d9d42c0f/falogesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secoinblock.com/upload/files/63535726575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8bf75e1db---pibodusozaretisunulexerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb60c2ee12---96506883556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/pofagabimogefenaforowozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113352782af3---bezapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viscom.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/68961864091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3b00033bab31ff8536b12c2c6fefb4/nekapalabopegevatepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/povibuviluvobofetijuxonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b36959bec362094ace6bc512b2eaf23/gopavabekifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/veremovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cba34487993b8932c878ee783b24df9/44415353970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/pugatatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/janubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/fejenevuwogugosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/lesexuwuputajineputonuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202151451182983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/dasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/48407342488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/83839422854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424a98cbae8087f945939397f4a113bf/58353455233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27e287f3a8---rotobupexotosomumofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ff431cad0---10271453716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+formal+and+informal+risk+assessmentsPDF 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_off0000fafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001130e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130E 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 77d4cab4703f300eedd061027a21152a8e22143f392add061bab5d87bf3aaa6b
font_02_sfnt_off00013c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C7B 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7f4f96434c8c9fda3dd0d05d353c00dd44dff0fbaabe21953df2bb7c16c3b0