Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2225236d3049518a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d6ea3206217cc3b557bb90b564c4e570 SHA-1: 6e94a77507ecf21616f2308d2258c537f2473179 SHA-256: 2225236d3049518a05f13d38986c1f0401048c61a50c3cc55746f5e591e6d89f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on unknown or suspicious domains, supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/narexojiwejomosu.pdf
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/pefikaxugeraselitaxawen.pdf
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimavovig.pdf
    • http://net-work.cz/data/file/rotodepe.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/rivetamubafup.pdf
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/53479444518.pdf
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/011920293267.pdf
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/bebavisutaxutid.pdf
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/kagoditaz.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d85c394b073097d6f045525bbaed5f1a/88845825878.pdf
    • https://777mto.com/contents/files/29704390865.pdf
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bosigigotuvinofu.pdf
    • http://sanraimundo.cl/dyn/uploads/file/fetugibifinisabitubiva.pdf
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/govagunumefudafuki.pdf
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a3391814ece6b88ecc573bdf7a8164/57396902518.pdf
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/nijudarase.pdf
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/xuladavorenerorome.pdf
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97341500578.pdf
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/61962206332.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a57c9c548---91083839704.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138194a5e0da---8779101282.pdf
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/43942303711.pdf
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/gunilifipuzorebupumo.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07352e67f2cbdd1e1cdf7a15de39c565/15562258720.pdf
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12565388885.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+happens+if+you+lay+a+refrigerator+on+its+back
    • 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_off0000e3fe.bin
be93d31cd7a98b7d0e3487b461c0a9f0be1be3220c35eb5a4efc04be932f4c25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FE 11196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe08.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE08 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001161a.bin
9fe2f6967cd01d728730655291d220f7bb418e3f80803e8f11cb7f8b850b1b42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161A 17956 bytes