Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c7e5a01b21e51c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4ce83d1fac196e64a358e78f7cf5ee8d SHA-1: 89e30ee63838a1b3548e0ab2cd4355e60b90413f SHA-256: 22c7e5a01b21e51c6236e3908e09ab3e5e12911ceeeffff7c444180009c0e02d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. The presence of a "download button" heuristic and the ClamAV detection as "Pdf.Phishing.Trojan" strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/62997096287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numoxukasatukekosiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105bd5f96d---vejenarabevagaleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c310c958242---kugaketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/56957560751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12393b21835fa80e322013281adf7b38/73094153129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///44016905535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/zapudofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/17256616998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd45e4389253f4dc07c53a6c53052b0/95283341410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de25d16d605---zewuzafizerebenomarafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/96870545112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/24395864067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/90771408859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e2b1decec---77432200181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984803dc10229ce4edcb8bf30d632536/33832358328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/83068820324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/getag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoutreach.net/clients/e/ea/ea4f28bd0b090870cbed8536b6d1d406/File/vivorasosipuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/98298457329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f5d84e26584b1a019edea4440425896/kaxidutolatikinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/70267677403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/69561546178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/palogimilaxamodegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ms+office+activation+keyPDF 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_off0000e383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE383 17180 bytes
SHA-256: b9cfd14e907118d84a6a788182157bb6dceed254928d1c7dc07fac9ff7a2d756
font_01_sfnt_off00011060.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11060 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12877 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 0572fd68a741c3a7d0f0172aef2f06cfeb468d515a7b164bfa45a8e2c1d17482