Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a7b151fede8e7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 10:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 60745784e69192d9def995abec312095 SHA-1: ed56e7f28549db82c7455f8507ac1904ea79fc27 SHA-256: 22a7b151fede8e7aaf739750f608f256652d305f9e75f10c0fd63a1b2429856e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=standard+course+hsk+3+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/tananosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0ec9539dc---67978176957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q79oqo2i767evb46lmn50i67p6/68939692900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20215241154296450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/61894090132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609550678c4e2---potisevepowuwabila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d043ac8a4e---93054768728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q54si4ou218btmipl24j76sgro/zoluzimenifuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/19481697226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/162e8b76fcdf08892a54df09f95fa07c/67467968285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf4e000410---5209148413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95901886590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5fd4c4491---58459013504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/37964637435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/328784a2f1b182e77703d731817feb42/bedezoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE455 5092 bytes
SHA-256: b4541c6fae2ced22dba0f9536cdf54b7a85700152c88de5440952d353711e4f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DF 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 306dcda534d0e6a83ffea800713436ca70d333d5d971340050b3d3876846203e
font_02_sfnt_off000108b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B9 23080 bytes
SHA-256: 203506ac226c7c12899b04d3a0c0f57d6d7247a619a20a58bdf9b43337312bcf
font_03_sfnt_off00013bc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC7 16268 bytes
SHA-256: 4418c535a1a49649c51649cd2c8588c12c772990926aff3accfca7b4ca5c65c8