Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22bd6405a7911afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:06:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3e8bfc7d90ca61b5fdd8c3320163e028 SHA-1: f3952245b7b265de2824dc7b9fa60467b810ffe3 SHA-256: 22bd6405a7911afefc54066404b1175a9df79910ddeeda8ce120f9be9666a1bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. Embedded JavaScript was also detected, suggesting potential for further exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f479779e8d---mijunositokozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fa9a6e6e1---mexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj99m7c01n79pju3mp608bbqj4/49586625328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/rezaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/81695741173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midoriku.zaitakunet.jp/app/webroot/upload_images/files/dafonofavopidugexabuluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/lujiwoxomotodanifubularit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/17721316412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22885136264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/8318958259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srmtteaparty.com/uploads/files/202109012215576787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.saktoon.com/userfiles/files/91982936594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/87833642563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oa30us.com/userfiles/file/bodajuredenirawonimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desijijiwikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/xomaretasebazajugugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/47563286643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/63820316911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/68421344985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/gotuvaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/59876751108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/kemimatenurelilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614442558040b---56254933569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buxuzedefaxalusozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=jsonobject+library+javaPDF link annotation
    • https://grupo.iberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisokivalavepisav.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_off0000ec11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC11 10664 bytes
SHA-256: d0a18b93fc5627632da7c333d63d032e581c57ab59be9e7ab852201c873157a5
font_01_sfnt_off000104ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBF 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 7800c5cb55abf63a0fee1d50d3f18a09a87782b11b2bb9dbe533619b74c7fa27