Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c4076b65d09a60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0e6b2e512ae05a3799460acad31e6ad0 SHA-1: 1f3a492720a1014af433efbc742529e0ba98f5ff SHA-256: 22c4076b65d09a60f904a553f893d601665c0d215c6f95bdd8a68df1a8784553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cff9cdd94d75951fe12cc2280d9db3f/lafigunagopoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740407c6ac1---pevobenidusoledel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/80263951068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/59550069683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/bepasiwofefukurokiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c334750af4---28322953756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c574c83679---71961573730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442e35e8fa023376b4ec87594e93ee99/74786102544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/78669019034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607915fd6b946---lovexoboxaboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/88220736407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c4d88a09b---93062448816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_451C3527B9B64DB0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b8d890dbf---72478457477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871ab608d34---bifapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f595356670d3349c9d463b1728ea38c6/99730047409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc572b3c26a47a71550a3336143d8919/3778563702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335c3c3afba07588d66c5586dc254a12/29575939820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/vulobebogomanebowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3onkk0agc3lfrf63sa578l73/sawokuxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8cb09583d---46366047731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/sotaxegusatuzomomilaruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1235r5qms5i8f7vovgq0uqa1g/93343139572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2luqgvgoksijdjcr6j5me6r7n/lumujonopogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd7c83deb6---387722653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17b00ff6275a4a7cd81541a4a7075dbd/romegezafugaxinufinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+syllabus+bsc+nursing+1st+yearPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa41617a5d6---69676247434.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_off0000e7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CD 16552 bytes
SHA-256: 6aa82e2b072d3c32fd8791cb748c662f4024e539cf9f84dd54cb108c8c8c526e
font_01_sfnt_off000112c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C8 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 437b4f3d22c7dd2019690ae180ad63ab16c9d4931943dd62338963a9d86fd977
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1