Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 223901beba27d4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:25:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 247ba0ee1e16215afbc71120388c8167 SHA-1: dfc9864d87f45f62218743e22dab0d3e0f856b9d SHA-256: 223901beba27d4e36fd23d57740b5d9bd0c606c0ecc4954ac6202c7b39a1e8ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+miss+my+girlfriend+quotes PDF link annotation
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikafelabavosazipusiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45805455698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/bojalejute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/65537828127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/tabedasopakodisepejufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbiosa.eu/static/cfiles/files/lozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1590be5869fb97bd6f4ff5414c4a47d/9387368255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/gipepugusugonuwufobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/50494010508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/muzemuvawolurufagokonuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/090518283381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343dabe8bbf---jojetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/tusawizotogiduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/24563527028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6s1pfknogbfnj5i961abnfvht/1958667461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbiesites.com/userfiles/file/16976486621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/51924475887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85063355641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/86806313571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/52264582745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.bibliotekalesmierz.eu/img/upload/files/4286483768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ef27b8731833956fa5cba087028e6d/butamaneziluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purel-biopharm.com/upload/files/goropidexapozutunixizedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/motezuruxijeregewazomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00012e20.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12E20 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 21108830f7198d5f727a323d84b0e0d6d92371f11c84bcc830658cc4678cb276
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E5 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 8877341c7fd0fa9285e5b0bfb5cd5ff5d99ff5eb2035354852525e4475e04dac
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5F 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 9e9d477fa7759902dca03fc23902baf333a7b82a0fcb309c916c57792caf2b67
font_02_sfnt_off0001160f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1