Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff99997a627d9f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 92b70b0d26c62c73896a9aa978702f80 SHA-1: a71173d697a6c16e685d0863a338b2ce4b239cb0 SHA-256: ff99997a627d9f9184e924fb772b13f2ea52f74eb7d88f7f027015db0012cbc1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a phishing lure or a downloader for further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0fu6i3gviu6rv5v0fgri8cl9e/pididixukibap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cba60.com/clients/6/6c/6c2dd71b6188bc8e8f5adc6209c6f86c/File/similadedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa09b6fdc2e8f8cf596af21dc9df41ee/68961859681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/xawasowerazikovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/lajasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-25/20210725094452409120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d863cf82c469d2c722c96029733216/81972142803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4980d07215a4283c944d81717e1a91e/58011122689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc2bff2b3e---32817974554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc1df8b85104e8a9cbf517ad42c9bd1/nenimajoxikinaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/74499910003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b3eb8b569---66662048080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/16689870611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d99f918ea---benuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/nefulimarozosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f941acf163fcae64f6a5b034c70e45a/vavevakasonubatilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/rebugekuzatobozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82818302117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c1aa159da---35766590554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66c591df8d---33946967698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610141098c5a3---vowigefumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/resubixoberulojamipirewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagulepaxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=summary+of+a+midsummer+night+dream+pdfPDF 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_off000190b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190B4 18544 bytes
SHA-256: f0a0bcf3f52cdb6449720542673dcfe8cdd7f65730680a58184ac3d4ab43d2f9
font_01_sfnt_off0001c089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C089 11188 bytes
SHA-256: e0380690c09465adb317a9a37af4e3c527d6bb9506e90552c8102d0316ad2ca3
font_02_sfnt_off0001da55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1