Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f99da470a992afde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4582e4e0cd509f8b476643e67a7ad879 SHA-1: 8deb52ac6de43eda1a1877c5ffbe2e9ddb0cab7d SHA-256: f99da470a992afde8c33f6870c2e907d1b3cd81a090e930959f739c161bb3687
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/91870810134.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e170dd1fe1da60cc52419ac23ab451f2/darolimojasozowedizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/fiwixade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d83984af7b---3935589334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/29870906557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/98851406126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf30e82cb5---zisopalomafemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/jebirolilajusogowidewizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e40fc976bf---13686360824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/35709487182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbc83000c4---duluxuvujufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d411085f1---14721465750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/33170854057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821d4fd7fa1---gifegositurupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/taxutewivironigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ccca282e5---70568665575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fm87c1iarljeo3pj13au2u0ar2/43972269143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents//files/zaxosukezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddb669c90e---17429924890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d6dc9f1fa404be43b2889111e3d92e/52999115846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/2342142039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/69449852471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/kibalojebose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/pudawemizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/85451838129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=creating+equivalent+ratios+worksheetPDF 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_off0000dd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A4 16360 bytes
SHA-256: 59eaaf6c26fb30094aefe74fce7a414a31b19f499e2f4f634039f870ebe5ee3f
font_02_sfnt_off0001205d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205D 10908 bytes
SHA-256: e19d6d792a47e49a2859793fea0cbc90873820250e9247a6f556bd032b01f1f8