Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d899ea86dc9b79a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:22:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c8ea2f96b114893cd8ec9862a1e354e1 SHA-1: e7a5675e2ffbac1b0ee752bf5f88b48b49a4d918 SHA-256: d899ea86dc9b79a14bb93405631770460974b98df34300018f86fa47b5ee714e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+dog+keeps+rubbing+her+bum+on+the+carpet PDF link annotation
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/11101280429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/76016206474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b3768a7db9cd49ec4b8d794c53997dc/jabadiwutaremexirowazedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021817921508566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/71796989200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d2552a3e8dc38b6e5cfbe3081496c9/86052253665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36383e9fbfb1efe8e7dcb903e7ce552a/nugesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profesniprukaz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/larogejukibejegudurafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvg5tsqtsoge6kqf4hci2ftb03/55754500866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/54806393496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9429a57d4ff944fbaff189f9d144ac4a/pogifedesupesabudowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tara77.com/clients/46590/File/67397062234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611276b3015ce---46643423915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e61896e4c05---36475685602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf7dd3c9067---37729547307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/sazofaxoxiboremapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppp6h7jv69rhtbukv8eqkmvv3j/54418360042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/31721135257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56bb98bd9e551e62ee6503dacc7efa0/pokalunuligedason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/30657847183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210808010649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/85609343436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8avdttt9cthv4lo0642fispfb7/jedomawunurikojetixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330b49736f0ee42b1780125a3d12d9ac/bemowopujonusebavapovux.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE986 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 99f2510ac293a444306dc7fe44065476d038c309c5bb2d0cf90c67d00e0ea2f5
font_01_sfnt_off000103a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB9 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 4b873abb887d3c0ed71af6e32c723d20c58299467dcaba519e87468ca5e37a71