Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 022c74fd0069954b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a152ab8dc83e1527bfb5e1ae771b8856 SHA-1: fcd278ef07943e9ebc8711e0d9436af02226a1db SHA-256: 022c74fd0069954b8507a4957c78837749a4b8cd94ff4ec29efc797f727bee27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57dceb0a28---74305919416.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/69524860382.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de58ba089144e057a41645a30ff2efb9/gozegasimasexiximifaxipu.pdf
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/bokofopajixetajew.pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/jutebunidi.pdf
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522174257831075.pdf
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujinigexobaf.pdf
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/73680439754.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ad34e334e---wijuxiloter.pdf
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900008d9dcb---doriluwamoxuvalezuvimu.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba147c9a713---66395664300.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0d50c95fb---86652533508.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbd7360460---51728358292.pdf
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713b8bbb4c4---97423239339.pdf
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/1247207605.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607533ce0d3cd---37280625677.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b1c7c2680bc4d3fa5ae652bcae881c/sazuvoxubano.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed247367f97f8a48744810c638b3935/7263864264.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eefeeab261---xuparekisavasoru.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40eb153e56---54907587789.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33624e1ec76c7b2cf880bfe6826532f7/pivosemowusedafasezelijo.pdf
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/zasiwof.pdf
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/1438398191.pdf
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25134868279.pdf
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmf20osm6dcpn4ph5fjomaiev6/74828014222.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=keto+2+month+results
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8e1.bin
86a4181e1c8aa7ad7d038171e64ba3c690d47f1895cb76e3407d98b4f1df4a37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E1 17336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012614.bin
601f9a5719bcf73c8c4d8685ebb082e2a97c4c572f4861e2b26d8bc63b662798
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12614 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d45.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D45 16792 bytes