Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c435aeba58493a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 81fe9f50ece94ae01bcf33ae56b486b7 SHA-1: 1fcf0260faad1b44501ae83d171df9825d745a13 SHA-256: 22c435aeba58493a7530e8aff062dba5f87f7d65cd32a72d9fc54f32a4dc8e64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to drive traffic to various external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65929508169.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/darusunemunifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/retibavavakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/9967414169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tabagofokixexebeximikebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93c986e66d---47236784425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781b8ce1d86cc705378fc560525db922/xinipopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/15938302409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb2eea1a778---84379827821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/fumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/77084108475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/21087234189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/64540228023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bc7099e5e---78354140376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efb1b1d67b---14494930425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/48012252136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1302b3a45---41922822233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/tanijubizirisuxeruwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/50140828098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210603062132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a5a4551d6c---69734844102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirijowebareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/30583756886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/jolilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nursing+diagnosis+for+skin+lesionsPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59158a1e3689073b302830764369e921/47480138476.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_off0000f6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AA 10600 bytes
SHA-256: eec55ca56d9e04ac38db931425d0c60a7006994aa954a0aeb2777a98a5d583e7
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D9 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 2436a7d32169d047b89e5d2a4794d19a0fd487d66ad26c9a74a42833f4a7ab91