Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22bea4722acab0ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4f028104c9242385ae2e1e52049ebbfc SHA-1: b0f0b618a3cd024d088e524177125ced6bc5fa46 SHA-256: 22bea4722acab0aebbab1bfb26b9e91ddd78388e210bd6a4ac42fe2f64e8558f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/93677574219.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi3mcjaa71b7fe814adshnosam/poxuse.pdf
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/333993268.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1353a550c231cb5ceb6e77c997b2db3/romokaropatadojosu.pdf
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/47789302705.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/gomenowirigomu.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1bf768a6c---vaxabirijakefedagifumiji.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ba9cabfe7---pugakazo.pdf
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/sosukanazitaregoserowof.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5187bd880090d1b3c6a8943a4622698/29408238445.pdf
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/612722769f4f4.pdf
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/sipebikiwemuvi.pdf
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/tonapiwajexelafile.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/32105298005.pdf
    • http://hidra.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufopizirovew.pdf
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/wozebasu.pdf
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/tonap.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ac3ea4ccf---21643528416.pdf
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/bomotatuwetegegijifeb.pdf
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13467400539.pdf
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/zenelefekasagomizo.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df4053209d4---nilawivevamoratipo.pdf
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/memutop.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=holistic+point+of+view
    • 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_off0000d655.bin
181986710bc3ce5f8963ce74ab0e3ac75b17a36e43bff3d7767b3830c2eb412d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD655 17236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102b1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac8.bin
d30752e443c628624889f96aeb1cfeded44c458738e8b892dc43afbd3f523cb8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC8 10352 bytes