Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f299d819c53ba568…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 06020c3c48179619141c2ac46821d779 SHA-1: 2f8f111d04b735c3277b63c359c942b7a17103fa SHA-256: f299d819c53ba56807347dc03614032794f4462c45b56de1aa28876c905a89f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely phishing-related. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or compromised external content, rather than containing an active exploit within the PDF itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasatadadake.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://altinellerinsaat.net/UserFiles/file/fogaduleforebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/68111427713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b894c03c860---bizopazazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43640508983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829fada098e---domeposokevagurozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/31837741921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/tomovixavipenojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873a75efac9---73579761259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520f80e13cbd4aec857b472bb786103c/97768980948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/68318346042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28af6bf0ea---34128079250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/nedemobarutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607558032d56c---virizekixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdda7030c1---gujoridapevuzidudolemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f9a3ea0c0---79826284774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureatkk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24516664598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffc3c368ac---98182224822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mq9pn79rdpust1qege8fvshli/88081685669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/gugefodarigete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/617128093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8be224ae0---jolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/kizibesiginasipagele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=indian+threading+near+mePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28C 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 07a54583e5d47d92a40ebc767db4a310a13efb18af332a85a7b279c2ed2d7edb
font_01_sfnt_off0001094a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094A 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 17dab69886bbd3ec2a6b7f0b1d65c3601f0d4afd9e3fe3dca6a26fc3206f9cfe
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC9 18320 bytes
SHA-256: c9b689e36eb64e166173d700ad081d931e51de5c445c870914379750c1ecbdf0
font_03_sfnt_off00014fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1