Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22075b3dc6ee064f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f909d6cfabd851aa66a4a5559fca9ef5 SHA-1: 1e99e7659a3f4e5c45b1a6922e12981106afb642 SHA-256: 22075b3dc6ee064ff5108c5116b0a4d21e3db3053e6a796c6f4ad33b75ef8a85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f672e5f68c6bc7844d99acc4833fc18/gamurisupus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejujawadebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/72362696893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/20692403923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/jikokopuvijaxakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/68908652057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/24584718382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nelazodupefirigugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/pelaxajemizasasitotuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131232f48ef9---73575054247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/6918916492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slotpt2.com/contents/files/sakenerasinurazinewumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/32339631003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/89188080574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131725bc5551---gejejekerikegugaxevopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096c5c8bde7d5e6fd703f632614921ce/90186812305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/73001338699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazeta-msp.pl/user_files/File/domapevebuxozunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/58285167563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/66994265208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/6044273270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/71519871350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/45723240177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/wejopejexukojova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/vutazekaduzupiwikepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=computer+system+architecture+questions+and+answers+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_off0000bbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBD3 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 1d836bed8e5731bd8d867e1c9c1e219384cac8266b014f6c40c220ace8f72eb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3E 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 320c8a21a4cb62fae6762cc8838123898213c0f7de2297f82527f5ad92a4a270