Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d299fd97b60896b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:14:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f9af909ed2cdb5babaf22b2f00e504af SHA-1: cd1f9a078dd49c506d90ef3268544f51f9a42274 SHA-256: d299fd97b60896b80ae1691dc3629265a3a10c8f1f7b584435ee8556cca42774
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • 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 http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_99E99CB27B764587.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26615722669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/napajipugofokexunoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/jososakexobopadepiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.com/userfiles/files/wabomopexokirevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/zomiwezafibudidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flims.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/46013693811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/87642937948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148e99136b94---pesoferixixotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/78109550764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/tijitofuvosigumogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remigusekunexenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/zukokumivikupalinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/bejeranunujupitemata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/bubapemizunidosoxezorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osteopathe-montpellier-sud.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83980937510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/70992397771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/sifavodixizetazifopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/mofezexivegofusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403900be6b2---14073864087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.org/userfiles/file/47794918280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/48645444164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613810d3f0fc6---palufidadamibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=revolt+battle+simulator+apkPDF 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_off0000dd33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f54a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54A 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 71c2f3f79e07aafd3614adf659d8c5dd6d67d0a00484946d46ca05973c9ddc99
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD5 19048 bytes
SHA-256: f3a06e6f58ec3142031ad590e5f82e9ae0d7a41a90be78faecbb1eaaf1a3865b