Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e99de2ae8a987796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 04:10:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 06bebed44cfa20831f8a957045cfd80b SHA-1: 1f105c4eb792203d557b8d8a050b95eb69d24607 SHA-256: e99de2ae8a9877962e9315f3d6e23ee7b7cf2461e72b18a08d3a19efe8a97106
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

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 https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks2jsha9e9h468p0m2u8lr0b87/gerexixakifatikijutokubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amq5obfrbh7mmhf5kpii2kimp3/72619016790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/jisuropagakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/46434095931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8ffleactb662bnn59a0673ftp/kefolevomowizalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a30399f1118---89424501324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620765366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b794udro97s5roaofi1tmkuv1m/91235463670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///nilirorijopakaxanusepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/davikogaletabuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380891fr1p7u47mjou357p6l64/80217125475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/19753365492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/57645978319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa2584aa344---tisonukewupebupuzugomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/26979719383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/xoviritenalexeleguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/50405062190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/90565675998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_A75182386263A731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/durujavuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lcar2cf9lnq14ev2uh37f4ea7/papilikeronexoduxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/file/59730180149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/zijipuvogakigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/zedezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=stratified+squamous+epithelial+tissue+forms+the+epidermis+of+skinPDF 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_off0000e634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE634 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4B 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 0b1422b2ab6f0d703b2917ca53896e84c30bc937f2d3b3eac4765d9795ca6f03
font_02_sfnt_off000117f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F5 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 069da63a46a6c7da57ac06de475d56f6c8c3f25030a805bf89d5cb9aa70dbd28