Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22168ba294a433e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-10-15 09:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7219b61b37fa0d0db27279c1c6a9b5a0 SHA-1: a0f039ee0267e98bd9f5aacd274a65944a929a9d SHA-256: 22168ba294a433e1a4d9d324c36c72215f11f12f3691e83a872cce8426c91c82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. It contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially deliver malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://exam12.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/53357384634.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/43453805457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/96085777424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/71999807407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161574481b5b7d---gatukoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35974515268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/641537037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41053093279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145623873055---xaponutulurax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a70c6eb5c---gonaxeronenojixuluvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/pipijulawagala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51429134579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97937143851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43929822565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/puzebalijakoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raghuvirtrading.com/userfiles/file/dunipowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videlec.be/ressource/file/gasorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energywork.pl/userfiles/file/dasifebajulupize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/pafojexevawugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/lalodifawadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/piremibizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/6Zflnl449io/uplcv?utm_term=mimosas+and+brunch+near+mePDF 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_off0000d09c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD09C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AE 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 712dbc8ea35a2dc6fe29db63e9ef7d58a5d79faa60bd131186a2d36bede7ce6a
font_02_sfnt_off00011847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11847 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 4fab0694e3ff0de258aa3d490fa55d1aca89f5cae3bea5bd7d500a95dc3e0332