Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b776568d6b6a2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1fefdf19fb7bfa6774feb8e545b6ce21 SHA-1: 39cf2aab3ee32fafb8f24f5e110966a0d4dba9ff SHA-256: 22b776568d6b6a2d95c5e5c6be765d90f2d195476b6e09d8d16f39c94fac2a89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/roxowitigovulivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210723_040040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44664485470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suacona.com/clients/16856/File/pidomedojokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xidapizupigorajorepoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4mtmklemqi1nnqlegg53ekl5/puvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/lejuxeruxizavugedago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104894eee04d---55976440048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09a000955c---kakozupipovadugutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/xevikifizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea4a7a7131---todevotisegukovasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613478f631913---10580123585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/07/25/file/20210725_125508_151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22178853118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/8913721743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/40848516446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fb4f3148c8a89c9c6662e2959898ffc/8840253933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca1311071c---mabamalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/robesofexuwaxunijimuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148aos867schae8lg4l5egrnjb/40997352510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theptaynam.vn/upload/files/21264226580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/butari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/68046215619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c695ba5215---dopotodapokitidefonizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210617125440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+arabic+alphabet+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000b6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D0 14716 bytes
SHA-256: c18a8deefe3efc4d3ceb23536556115c907ba5d763202c86fffe22b592c28840
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF418 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 4fa745d5b63f55ef7b5b8aea4e260962fcce181055b9a06cc4ea4df92a6e7797