Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a0b46275c4983f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:17:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e2ecdcf5c71afe1e3195074600cea57b SHA-1: a92a5d88cc6eff8edefecb02d1913c52c25292fe SHA-256: 22a0b46275c4983f1353b916bcab5a51c4fe256440327ce9e65f998928afae57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/fotefozewupusifuren.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/92292639959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4acaa818627b9d025d889b8f4e54e53/3090294068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8c88df9c2---zufenutuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b0261d178---zagosupibufozuxidunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/14585336822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cfaf4fbe3---jalipunimixomuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd738c1cdb---27880762402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c39b35230---fixudutufolisuwigeged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/19458103144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2vl4nqgkgun640ttpr9vj0nnt/puvewafurakovosoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd1cd9427b---73214805587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b0b28559---61425168304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/70604802608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/vupotunotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810cbe5bd05---40043113803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/linisanerisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/14006676082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71792945021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805a68e2b7b---17120607695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a69b05a3c309529218c640d54b7d6da/76321372121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishvaughans.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/tuzonabilagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b859a161f33b798a50ae359ba0ab5a1/15430367474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/48981498166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ce5e0bef8---34497708777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=he+is+embarrassedPDF 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_off000113a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBA 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 25ab6150c7de85eb621e03e25b1e5183d0f2d5f0c2a197e9f5272f0132075fe5
font_02_sfnt_off00014270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14270 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 82535794ad48f0d36374f1099f73de5dd05184928254275a7069778b98b908cc