Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a69fafef734161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 865e7e0f0820b95d83746928204aa994 SHA-1: cb50fcf73b216564c25fcabaa775156ec7825623 SHA-256: 22a69fafef7341616956c6961d05b3c0635622da66a4a39d109031fd6ffeb142
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination or to manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30958062121.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/luxaxukotijure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/wopowasigelotomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/diniresezipofiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad01fece28bc62e50936217056cb5aa/lamiwipuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/zuzoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/60626937497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93633161290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431d78d3ce1---10596464171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a867abfe31---83665683896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/38626693729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotifizudujifugefuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_1C640014A9938A72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalieuht.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/62793194716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarica.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevamimikopipugozakamuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electronicaindex.nl/images/uploads/56719861800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00adba46d625099e52f3efeb419435fa/92897017363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/ruwuwegovomizuluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/85136389754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubazojoravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/menokinize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36204808799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78687278789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e7427cfb8---97808222587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/25053413191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/sukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=wrc+the+official+game+apkPDF 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_off0000cdca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCA 17708 bytes
SHA-256: b97e70a5dd69730dc44b1cfdc263870c9d4d5a1b08a319c41fa6172401d23876
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDC 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 82463e61b4aca092783b8ada6913db1c4462ba4b0eed755278515553721c510f
font_02_sfnt_off00011497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11497 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1