Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 226da56508145d70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 20f74b58ccf69aa063c5f4f9b62fd26f SHA-1: 4f249ac72d3fbbdad3700b878d2189baad39bbb6 SHA-256: 226da56508145d70c92848245796767d2aeece937d77b7cac4f39a1dfbcc0a95
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other domains, likely serving as a lure for users to download further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URI heuristics and link farms suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://chinahongji.com/d/files/54706263347.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/zugufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fdconsult.qa/public/uploads/cms_files/rumomegasofijopipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/xoposevizelozowewudoraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59505089006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210908051024_me3its.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/9736982905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ce61f16cf---motejedewovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/69181370532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villkasz.hu/editor_up/41976744941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/32873209999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwedufonilagakogoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/30263128660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/rodonifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a21404bbc5432dfa96800472780479a3/85583243942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/78282035750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/69985258440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/38931849376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/jebasitaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacausedeslivres.com/userfiles/file/fokikasopebizadilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385ed8f3d3b---30656440427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazenabytkupraha.cz/files/file/susupozevomibusawifuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/59739158898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/zufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/34991853540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+see+wifi+password+in+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_off0000ee5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10671 18540 bytes
SHA-256: c99cf5d3fe1ef49bbff420d1126529a0dcef05547a519560e1f926d019e8ec7b
font_02_sfnt_off00013647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13647 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 903c977aadbacfeb9b53ff2b0fced5ed6dd7cd1358199d2c383f41798e304920