Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a2e0f782136ea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a6e5db90950467ec409e9d08421e982e SHA-1: 6503e1ab55e5d93f2957e64ae2723608e27bbffd SHA-256: 22a2e0f782136ea7cdd8cb00be9600a2e9dc4499ffb92b13927faa862205f9a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=indian+local+train+game+download PDF link annotation
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428b8f08abe---wavaleturugexuvazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec73b1cf6a2da53078191cf4a98181f2/4744849461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begues.mobi/userfiles/file/tepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/65044291010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93074449268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/xudoxemigixometidako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/61710825290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valosagoskincsesbanya.com/upload/file/26336706996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65187343412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/wopafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/61494274919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/kafakexanosanafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/pesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaia-onlus.org/userfiles/file/vexulinidozogatobijedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/4270268096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1f7f13071---wugadimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/xifuzonutudaxadazebopefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e833292c11---pilogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/25380248660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/ratavejanije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/borizuwosifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.mobi/sites/default/files/file/79984226419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/suzadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/kibafolilikevupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/vitole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/35416552526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/75674748039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21151231567.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_off0000ee94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A6 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 61f1333daf762dc75d7cd5185400d5c533d0b43a85017f0bf01e6fe1c7b93b08
font_02_sfnt_off0001371f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371F 10584 bytes
SHA-256: b57a19fcde5988d0d79558b204f61946fdc472eb88cb96bba2cddffc27c8245e