Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c1305c6310b708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 10:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 00383f881a8eb3fd999c26da20536977 SHA-1: f188db220f1f999e410170d93eea3fee2926e7b2 SHA-256: 22c1305c6310b7087a1702c2ad15a5c824a07fb720cd1919381a0b8673666055
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-heavy nature and minimal text, typical of a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded links point to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files, indicating a chain of malicious redirects. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1569bd4e0887665d85cf52f5637e0487/tavekelonitiwujinokovaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/39830107662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverhouse.at/pcms/content/file/jiwagisukufofokamoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/gidikosuzatovepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/2021914611229311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/savinenunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlcjty.cn/userfiles/aa/file///93977846085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/71069627157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/negomalulaxinejujebovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apteka-wratislavia.pl/halatecza/userfiles/file/nevatimuxegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/sodejuwijewuruvivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/49595760158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togedopogubawowirupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/13010018832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionradvanice.cz/res/file/8563263779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/bitijifimajamepodesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/55123018409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98144845750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/65925503561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76316601960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/74267293758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ca5b4b5346237cb147f1c6b594a9c3/13747179010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338de8dd7e1---diwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/35773897941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/54443441098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=awit+slang+meaningPDF 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_off0000afb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB8 14536 bytes
SHA-256: 51f1bceae4b3233f1ec205a118f311bc32ec45b2cf2b9fdd9d9beb4f89f37992
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC08 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 17333c5ef27cb76104b189c9e856e2d9d621846b44c364d53111494b71fc54de