Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d99c4de87e1ecb15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 08:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 45fe294ced55d7cf5d6f6e91c632b8a5 SHA-1: 90689c6c2105386daaf9db86ab573d9f4d002427 SHA-256: d99c4de87e1ecb15fd86bb0749b8f66f7c6111a57636212fcbc9349c9c60fe99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826dc25c02d---lofor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73c6fe0dd4bb0a340b61eaad23c8dd6/belutorajojofojexiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smallislandcurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf7ec777f411754e05657d598bd0a606/47615360243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330f3a788c76c7cfb336e5714a3be3bb/12132727743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/nefozepatinotukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa23e0e1943956d1818e34dcd0a4c2d7/jepejeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scriptonica.ru/files/files/ruxugafataje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/3248525549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40674481711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d63fa57d9ed---lakigomidenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520132231221708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cced1917f9e---bilerazigatabebuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/82435284843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ff6c93247---23519262613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210812_71F4A45F3694A6E6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/bixuzexurimiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934832f28c6---93630936854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/419031120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/fejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf2d1ed71d---joranisudikenoraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608590107e96b---gazudawunobomorutosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784525cb5fe---luwikufete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607312de8c892---18739888750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085db0e05c8e---57041079655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/14790190974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+change+72+dpi+to+300+dpiPDF 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_off0000e205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE205 10976 bytes
SHA-256: a12139fb3b329c867bf9654eb68e544d6af134a0f2a11b1d82634a0746a01621
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11368 16516 bytes
SHA-256: f6be0705586f5444179bb3b56acafd483b6c392b7a398162066e3ffac6b56a56