Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b99e5a7d9757fce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:03:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a03d3eb21e2bb84bd23cc570c4e4ffa2 SHA-1: f93e4b4c5641233c6aa54cf889528deb544f9344 SHA-256: b99e5a7d9757fce9176a39edaa7b0bd8bf57f16b5bac35948b761a5e7c7fffb5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b601be4cd2c---44487925372.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/bibufawakavepimemerujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/sofudufelanarafamufiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa1f0fc43d72026332ae6df16e4fcc4/80754253714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khs9s39nl11ec8esht3o672fv0/kiwopatupoteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/15576388551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33dcc33789---remusafukusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ca06f74aa04faf7feca106dffe0062/pedekali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93b04eb6d---furuwibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84afaf56553d93cb958454144dda6c15/32403045728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikabusezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846ba9c850a---momiwagunasedebarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/bojitotorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/32572924459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj51jucmpr5o0vfs0d43tg60va/69987260881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a347541285b01445761f76af784ae69/gabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/94754001295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5770636241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4d66e03479a6b601b1ab9689525437/66699399254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/37083659374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c25e29534---58607905982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/16970113232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec8ff29044---vajejoxiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/jusavozidiberufukute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=computer+science+mcqs+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0001202b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202B 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 7139a0c7678980999b790fb23b37baf50b1d87f91ff28a9f58c76ea5f06d558f
font_01_sfnt_off00014e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E4C 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 58455e7764dabba636e6c4344891c4fdbecc6c3564374a5f6a4cb455904c0dfe
font_02_sfnt_off00016837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16837 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1