Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b7346fdaa190ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 14:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 83dbd0b574a17986bcfb848aa8eb0a13 SHA-1: e80dd1be4157290ef8d526cb64b8d08b64e4b58e SHA-256: 22b7346fdaa190ceb8698dee48b6875f640d2406f2749b1ad4d92634582744e2
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content, potentially leveraging SEO poisoning tactics. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links to PDFs on compromised sites is a strong indicator of a malicious distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • 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://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7bc65ec0eda7cc9ee0dd6309dacef09/tenoxawi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca5032a35c014292a3fe259dccc2518b/xerotipobozisafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyjclinic.com/ckupload/files/63056240153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/3579942406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/67991555537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef279f12452532f06901f6a07937599f/panarofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/84092624901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba17ce9a2c---92342585216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d7bb943ae485b4dd971ba817c462b98/vavaxudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisnewfoundlandfamilyreunion.com/clients/60627/File/lazuriforuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/51087356749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/dusaxefawopobevava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a40322de5---19822959318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l70ht1tgglg14bvq7iiu26hl4/zamozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae00ae1fc30c14edbf4370c64b33bf5/komobabolenemonogisisufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b12cce29d5bc3162fd15c98d1c2bfeac/10144123133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf3b74129d24607cd4c36fbe1edc6c07/10961795989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41945e92ada2c7ab72e6bc2cd0ecaa24/57291507246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c28dff2a79aae6af47d5f4ce8d1ae5a/megumoduronat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/73330331417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fe516c074---dakovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/ronunekuvopuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/94848484661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mera+bhola+hai+bhandari+dj+song+download+mp3tauPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb826313118d687ddc4c3264617f22d4/molafu.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_off0000c436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC436 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 52c4bb34443aa4d0cba4eaf8d5fe0d65be0518d0e31fc1cf97816da7558f3488
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C8 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 475a041f127832d5f27411cc20f96a1fd9eba4564d7668c4cc1613dbf03d61be