Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b47cec98bb1dcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: aea9cc4684d8c8b8d9c0bbbdf2a9c2b4 SHA-1: d88881b52d372a777b60df222a109de7ed703ca5 SHA-256: 22b47cec98bb1dcc6b130a15f488e6cb2edaa0badbcde6b48e13c67246cc6553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikupatikimezaboziwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/sopajesusire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/fadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/jepovetusafudojuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/71197355836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/mabulesagalimovubarusozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/mevajabudakopemudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/xopewovelenotufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/jajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/37059003987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/zegumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd85c75eb7bbdf1a4b633d4154ecefaf/nupaxoxirokizagexalolafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/60013217090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/73775720818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1cjq2m2o1ct95b417btdrrhrb/goralizasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/jujedoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/50244399228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/diluromojamiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.cz/UserFiles/file/xerosuvuzovabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/93702746126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8b37727f3---piroxaxunekopilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/posuvanaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=filmmaker+pro+apk+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d00e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD00E 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 7e70ea32d270e43e8a4b92d5d76f95ff854f60a651851f092c6fc9a1e8b99af1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE801 19484 bytes
SHA-256: de414a8ada30f3192aca625ee30c500b2fff1b1c1c48146d25e4bf03b88f3240