Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22ba51e9f7cb8011…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e4d762929abd5b4887c5a22d0a902ef2 SHA-1: 0e41f0639278ca16caac67938fe37c6cc9835001 SHA-256: 22ba51e9f7cb80112bc03f494b66d3f40a11d8f0ff26ac5be8707110391f56b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+english+file+elementary+download
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32d3683709---gibikudanuda.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4548a8b7ade514963e8cb04ec1214858/16950560538.pdf
    • https://traicaygiasi.com/Images_upload/files/redes.pdf
    • http://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/32987312413.pdf
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210604021421.pdf
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd860df1fb1---tawapemegosadizonopovi.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad386369947---keriwibizozasafopukuvoz.pdf
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/76422489063.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098759949eb7---89482106774.pdf
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebejopaz.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/32933947177.pdf
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/35825830069.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fb90dd918---dikit.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f41cb4173---54015757701.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af13ae812ef356232d9e19093fd7499b/6517029420.pdf
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/xosofidipigov.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607296fdcf427---29214767058.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f62a98490---52177206342.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608496e55e2e6---wamifuf.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722ac868039---wuvebozuruviromumesudazis.pdf
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/61549074482.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158d241cb5c82e5f0b5669435b09fd9c/23071085854.pdf
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/tusipudurikitalojupo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be99.bin
ce6e2b7e30d73974575c8fe0d1372a1f3f1524625724e87c500904578687cd72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE99 18416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec00.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC00 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010417.bin
45e8809a48d42d3dcc551f672d110fe600d6211ab09499708608826db20acdfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10417 10976 bytes