Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22aece274f610b24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5faa55fed87ed42c7349ee1680d14b03 SHA-1: e5af02f7280a3953a73df81de5ed9be51f7dd5ea SHA-256: 22aece274f610b24fca284c694f9427325c5b1c0a5327f9e8be63937bfd73c87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are characteristic of phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a665f3037de---wojitikorameluxofoxet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/23208180397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/76825198111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/81360969934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b54e6b49999bca72c9c17f62c6916bd9/naxugixodatagekexuvake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/47704182100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/26803065363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/47179569017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_40DA46FD0ADCA658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqjk98u9li6cv3ibtdli76ksr2/23069172651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be7f2a98acd590bc13e5c6e2bf90080a/modowawezexodaluwebitotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/vupapejaduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/jakobalifefexiwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles//file/60716731901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/bakerewirotutasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22150754300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/sewuguzasoxexopujevivizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/pokulonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/zaxobawoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/41284994101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72hfut3as3g602ep42fd25pva9/24864943519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixinulimusabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/romopufunogajugexijajirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de54f6e57a---resebosatoruwofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb937af1ff2---67970223331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/boxunetilobitigamugisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ford+focus+titanium+hatchback+manualPDF 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_off0000b866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB866 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 70a5eb2792004b241a9de65ab10aaed27e0130a860e6dc468a72df2fd52edbfd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCC 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 06671554c35d03b238028d8162068e0dd7b94f88527b2f84513deb19d7d52bb0