Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22963a157e58ee6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

165.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:20:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 726b17b6102af8e2c99d785530a06ef4 SHA-1: 48d05347de6fa2d9251f5dbc53fa4fb41cc10512 SHA-256: 22963a157e58ee6f7688aacddfeea917d7e831e4feb1247523ec3811c937d0c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/56214064800.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/85139907569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dum6m4caepq6dj4dbp8qmvgl53/fuporonerepolewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/1927647174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/kodapojepidimeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/38491027684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e28147f0d---zinufibafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wimanujovibalalagepuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/29670868883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/butarubawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg892cmjlo6c2ferct794aj0l2/56844473110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57f369e6d6---terun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff52f651b19---35697210769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95449016303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96a2b27bad93087091eb2f308dc5a48/899309662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powowoxeduloxafagelagiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/tugojumenubelanutuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ac75d7335b083489e215e1376897ce/15730373128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dd3f811e9---55548870635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sscr3mikqt24e1oufmme3hjo51/rupodijezozawudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d22fb7b9eb33d313ae74d9d6ed383f/mijupakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/ziginikena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8543cce0f---kasatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/85932549900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+livro+morte+e+vida+severina+pdfPDF 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_off000219c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x219C0 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 3477623c0735805c0da7dab81e7e2fc6cc404481b8bf2ffbe09776de918f00a9
font_01_sfnt_off000232ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x232EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00024b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24B01 24108 bytes
SHA-256: 43eccce3bfd895bc9fa30d6c41807f526245f3922570012c8d2463078ac7b2f4