Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b246d876005a25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:54:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4be1c96272c47010a9575866ef397950 SHA-1: db1eaf23d5371c3aa5fc92694330becb32d6a9f7 SHA-256: 22b246d876005a253df245b9f41b8ac4dbbf09ef738b3aad5b1c6df732c010d5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a likely attempt to download a second-stage payload or redirect to a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=protein+function+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/84914914091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/655lnnj9hpcpe9tns70cdbtolv/84380350965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f6572c604---butesekonekedipajeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i11meph59em5r470afkqtba4se/90643572428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43e7239ae14333bee447388ee59f19e1/64911275802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853d63517f1---78291874153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b681efd8a5921b10369125532adb195/9356851614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d828cbbaa4---88237294800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40774949326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/26807353855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2b3ede3fcb7170784d53a6f9eb0a587/50808845130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202106270503548200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39466690549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/69386075312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05fd836559---59366833870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac259ec256888e3037544bce8640fd9d/vijokerovagakexikazudumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/makejopefuzuxigunexedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nikagimabovurikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mk8egnc434h6p44pjimbp72n0/66082253152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88f32824081a3438f5f870b2836ef24/fafisujumiwupixekesomuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/14515774137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/1638702082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/5691155321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad93ae647ae---wixiselanasefofixedofeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/tefevesajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35374459619.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_off0000b5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D3 13928 bytes
SHA-256: ab29ef87b7e186f3fbd06c8804282878ed2438e0360171c5188e94d9ad6e3662
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C2 10340 bytes
SHA-256: ea84c21404ec49ec8263596cb93474492c8c1b421aed1275291162c71c3df986
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1