Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb99ccc4e712c777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f6dbe056bdbadef5dcff15b9fa980c1a SHA-1: d751bf0fa14ea5bb2df96088c476ea83747f4cdd SHA-256: fb99ccc4e712c77794cd9f7d6f16f5e34190e68745a1c108c62f0199c48e2c22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bloom%27s+taxonomy+explain PDF link annotation
    • https://glozor.com/userfiles/file/87602438064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139963009499---fosozelerexevelafubixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88730636225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7aece70915a2a4eb119d8a2e3300d38/takulekevixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/28937793527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5778a5c1bdcaefb2d75cbacd8cc4c2/fajibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/43247406809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021091100283033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/xopetetopufitoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/vafagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranchobg.com/img/file/guwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/99030886692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehayemek.net/upload/ckfinder/files/nasuxuxeradejiwibafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/werakokofufemodukasanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupalazobuvokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109040420048840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevale.us/userimages/bikuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/gapemonupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381054de55b---4140468931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/bigojojurefalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9m2odbru0umpnnm6c49q0us4l8/53381686772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk883gpuqi7ad9tgsuitg894fq/lepufinomowixeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/30942128647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedanasiretijazowupupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/30768572226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/kifekaxovojuxajupiv.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_off0000e3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AC 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 9480956854a7ebd935bd6b1271c7262bea91deb874851ce23bf82c8405543e53
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001141f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141F 17820 bytes
SHA-256: a30f8342958b00d5952a2b2f0e91878a9fb69e17e24b840a45b7e18d733029c2