Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22931f7aee49ddf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0bffef86155b13ec613352acacaabc77 SHA-1: 1766e0bc68bc50476c712b491be42c4cf0a315aa SHA-256: 22931f7aee49ddf82dda3cfc50bb0154dc3c0ac791da25fcf390376ac44785e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mi+y1+update+miui+12 PDF link annotation
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56de557f00412e19b29c38a85efbb862/wivoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10556744536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/28353280461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/71751815502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/67057127813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/zitofezipobidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210913000313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907045142916586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de1564076c---77248670088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/nitozeratiwejogurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0b574fac1---gagedugitakezuguxidubamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/nezutosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaynhanh365.net/contents/files/gijaniwinuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/25915429113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saletime.gr/admin/fckfiles/file/85894290570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/5937217555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/33692949436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/titegize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133021334fd8---82289157167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/58166139950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48987628753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://max-metal.pl/gfx/file/8475153375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22607920089.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_off0000b06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB06A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87C 15304 bytes
SHA-256: 5a2bbd97b6c8a6de43a4be36862e8104119a3987b67abdb1a183eae71001f48d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF33 10396 bytes
SHA-256: a0b8d12d9d6b88b2190424e01d8a23b10953e7ffcb9ddd6010cc735b28d455a9