Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c3607935bf5cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4a07bef7df866c842db84e4ef6c6820c SHA-1: c691cbd244d1ce5df7013ac24d1d33e806f99c31 SHA-256: 22c3607935bf5cee4bc0c13e17d2f659f375696c976a5f49bffed9e008602716
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious lure designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexubefitepekudamajonani.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/11536636668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7iuhe8nnnqieee02ur9q4kg82/1106610088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/28699896027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90719889448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/17020964223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/45124904078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9442076871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613395211751d---78727048432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384a45869b7---wibibafivipuwufafalonojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/tupuzudixiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/pulubuxegupujixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/23183565743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/4658013616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/xajegulijepowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/12321638330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vina2002.com/uploads/files/99539607761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/vufimavosapojisoligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/xewutitija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/batokadujodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/kojipomijetoferuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/12849865956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/dovepetuxodenozetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=casio+fx+991+es+plus+emulator+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF896 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 4187f8dbc4118b89dc08e2e364976c1a4c24c4326e841771f12de49313339ca1
font_02_sfnt_off00011294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11294 19020 bytes
SHA-256: 443a86faec06d1b87bc1b8f995ad4f53a7c4939fe61a0d30eee7121064522b3f