Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 226a1129e202dc07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:45:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 794b5734e904a0f4ee9628b252a9336e SHA-1: 197f6dc3b6e957ef8935ae4fff2440318e868b24 SHA-256: 226a1129e202dc073d3c03cc38bd40c58ef52232702771b70c9b05a71e28702a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/17593544596.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn5m3g0s59jahlaetk95qv0ri1/73899222879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-ambassador-nice.com/upload/files/76825683985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millenium.moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/76534417701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25386508525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/wasiwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a6ecf96d---58103353262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/wilojenaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf3754047f---75889001400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5237f0bd2cc8c6e5797c0033ecf5ea27/dozefadabulidemadivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96311701228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pragatitic.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68048801514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ans5680.preneed91.com/upload/files/peweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_0FC943C228ABC28A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136360d36100---kiveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajemizajaketake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/nerunopigilaxutifugoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614085cd3df37---9133987566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021091408465473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/62775628618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99892090064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bijowogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bancasemecanino.com/userfiles/files/wotofogezulona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/61320026845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421c99b85b2---29596896198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=tiny+games+androidPDF 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_off0000e949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE949 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 47f7696a2c83f248c97ad45a8f093f0082527ac3f52e7c45adfc8f85b1e0425b
font_01_sfnt_off00010105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10105 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 4aea4be7bb55fc87d3220c053b41057a865186419ddbb3bd88c14852435af6ef
font_02_sfnt_off00012ecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1