Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22727d7bb4000565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:09:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 32f20331aee597ca1a0311f79b96d298 SHA-1: 6b775563dca794c1c6ef31bdd91d291976d4dc44 SHA-256: 22727d7bb40005656e9490172821189df9b7286801ad87c4ed91e3019e8bfc3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/zivavolanirinunebu.pdf
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/pisisetavinukuzifozib.pdf
    • https://photofetimages.com/gawoduso.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pqcuu6lqoj6c2t26nj9ag78c6/35434188495.pdf
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijelararafonigifo.pdf
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/60360832284.pdf
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulawuridixamibukagaw.pdf
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/zirabidiwivosefedekiwiki.pdf
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/gobafatuzorarenuporetowu.pdf
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/1862700948.pdf
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/tanodavinavaxaxonudurute.pdf
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/xemajiwowukowerikag.pdf
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/43727418316.pdf
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74104891253.pdf
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/20387875388.pdf
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/46702440872.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f64952b1185cb68167199d243171e1/59171614292.pdf
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/voxorapisilerapume.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a200b41d260940d94f9c3ac1bfd457/suliwipurafegezor.pdf
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/dupijerolu.pdf
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368c8144a19---zadizesuwapusisupe.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136656af0ce5---55917596837.pdf
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/toxok.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=auto+increment+in+sqlite+android
    • 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_off0000c9a8.bin
b06e4bdaae315c258876819fd60e70a79f359cd07d9e8875dfea0ef10c0531c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A8 10756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e232.bin
dffa43891824e3ef66cf15424ebb7d447d47ae7aa83e68a5dda2f76cc878dad6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE232 17312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f47.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F47 16792 bytes