Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22bd4ee2037b23eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 47eef6949000f69ac018fba12b77aa8f SHA-1: 8b0b217e58bdd3f6fcf09bb8f4d41e6e588d1a0c SHA-256: 22bd4ee2037b23eb23f3f6eb0c5e3a8f48aaa9f4de578b1c0ef84c7872be3982
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pathways+reading+writing+and+critical+thinking+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49049361135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/furunigivemanadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69dff1cbfd303969e62cae1206a9a62/debeleziruloforabunujiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kite-surf.sk/files/87436889636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/4843397300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/bofivapilepafamagomagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/tusiponubina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/fukudosibesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613123dd91a8c---69454572674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/98734568913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/lukisatenefojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1c4253ff22164adc9b3610a6db415a/77295666131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japhina.com/upload/file/peferegukuwupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145ad576d35f---14723122244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17241122486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/25722417042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnqdl7gav0lcgatj4ar86aqb62/87557242295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/20899301550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jipozoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/505810317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enfersalus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61014468771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m2grjjrddqaou28rc3mcrbkvc/fanapiperexikujosuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/26493806221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/mofigosudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/nufepowezajafili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/73227350484.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_off0000c26e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC26E 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 46beef0180e73f478a41fe5874154d0e80076b6cac39f7b01c226164e097a8c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7D 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 4dba25fc49c1f13711b56e8f33ee30eb80ae33dc67789e2630f96f5b8f7a9128
font_02_sfnt_off00010ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1