Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22229afb853506ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2332d8930625a7abba1b3c86258c1719 SHA-1: 017b085255591e7f1c5b05f1445bae9c0f0c8236 SHA-256: 22229afb853506ae7702ef45c68bdc287689603881af9c7bcae7b64b4b17cd61
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification, a link farm on compromised CMS uploads, and a lure for password-protected archives. The presence of a visual download button further supports the phishing lure. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload, likely a trojan as detected by ClamAV.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dream+league+soccer+19+champions+league
    • https://locktactyuma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68397785990.pdf
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/69263535139.pdf
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/bekir.pdf
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/4192042466.pdf
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631828004.pdf
    • http://rapet.hu/files/pomego.pdf
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rositifadiroviwefem.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/nitofoleboxi.pdf
    • https://jimsdelibrookhaven.com/demo/jimsdeli/admin/userfilesfile/povifurepi.pdf
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/getilusepodibalob.pdf
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/3671217541.pdf
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/jowiguvaxozorebema.pdf
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/xelex.pdf
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitufevebezulonewixigovin.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dff8a7ba5---40726769736.pdf
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwobilitosefa.pdf
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/xemezakeg.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139175cad3e9---13762476010.pdf
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/70081828284.pdf
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/juzafuli.pdf
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/tezerukefosapuroniku.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc495e239ae0f7dbf776e5400d7a45a7/lozusolojerabi.pdf
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/kezusabi.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e566.bin
723f03c31d3b6b9678c7e3a57f175ca62c9b763b8d2ac482dd11ea551ce494f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE566 22700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d1d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001352e.bin
fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352E 16244 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014b1d.bin
9b0d62e762328b6b4569612d716ae8b5a07e1c346383deba715af29bcd808b8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B1D 11044 bytes