Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 223c01a889793708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-08-07 18:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 878da70cf527c9c08c6e0aeecd107be1 SHA-1: 8c2dd2f4e6f968e90d8dd3c05ada520fe3999596 SHA-256: 223c01a8897937083bf572c308a5b696c41cbac8f3b8d9b6979d0e3afcbf9b7e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=mapa+de+sudamerica+con+division+politica+y+nombres+para+imprimir PDF link annotation
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc1q6g4aapfh4vj5hn9g82p4h4/27916286927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210714073829_dk53mt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/10832564558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609389751366e---wukivugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t88dvb19s365g40s6v6jdvremm/59942399157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/mimuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e19feaa5d---9471656774.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/68745646109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/liviwigoxutovaruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/77633412473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/34956390316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/74527471366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b77ef56afe---soxojexajeligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7199876164783f37b383989ab9166def/55937610485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/67048056432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/5273872531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maligiruzokalirefedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://effetre.biz/file/24725035852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6q1lccd9bfgau6jiht9duk4q3/6515640448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whscardinals1963.com/clients/9/9e/9e5fab02d16e7113a74bdd4e7828f974/File/31090840467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/getiwijiruzoxilonaleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761cb530e97---63901748705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69937490513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087214d9b194---4325360759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/29380622373.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d55a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD55A 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 8efc02abb2292c920cffd63dfc81b1ace440776919afaecd250f6c1aab062ade
font_01_sfnt_off00010185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10185 11088 bytes
SHA-256: c4e6f67f0b48dbce6ba0d21f24986b78f6d80166bd634ff7d3f4f13596379282
font_02_sfnt_off00011b2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1