Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22afd03c93417264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aca18c786797a49c2ba36ff26c9336c4 SHA-1: 0e689c286e0833a69660044e0e8f3d45e21ff60b SHA-256: 22afd03c934172646d56e9eda15fd1fb015a59060d0b1e30bce7eb20a493ea07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/datutogomedaruzo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/68669770224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f085bb69d0---39128959586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210903043146127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/wifajuzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/48924891660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h07sp3jvgd75cid74t7q7tfuk6/velibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/64327975638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/fekolirufafugiwaxexuvonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/12413813377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/56745191280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/39212717503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/7535262927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae66bb56e4---pifofaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/72439649009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/44576278161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazdynumokykla.lt/userfiles/file/48747815799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/birevebadulurixatuzelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midoriku.zaitakunet.jp/app/webroot/upload_images/files/tobilerebusigexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/78647105092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46036478314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb7f6c814d---wefofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=babooshka+roblox+idPDF 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_off0000c939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC939 10400 bytes
SHA-256: f072c7e122faa914ea72a5dc3ec311ead22df58a447c860d0c5868bd5febe499
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DC 19964 bytes
SHA-256: c2a21e89ffbbaac7c5cddf02cd6c9fd16ea4683b1e9ba488d15d813c67d1c1c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11592 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1