Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c97d9caa191899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: af3a33e7d8537e9fb9e603521d89e3a6 SHA-1: d9c950174c07f89b40e6cd917dccbbbed61d4850 SHA-256: 22c97d9caa1918993378d5ab25c125d1ee2c6db9975e54a12fc467f4f49cac96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=save+app+data+android
    • http://pharmorgsyn.com/upload/files/63784472171.pdf
    • http://vilniausgreziniai.lt/userfiles/file/81048202865.pdf
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/warurazivarosiroxavo.pdf
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/44619892024.pdf
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/rugujotizidubudamifu.pdf
    • http://empresa-venta.hr/files/85607646848.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/87250252254.pdf
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/nizolupejataka.pdf
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/wokupenitupitaduwedozez.pdf
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/kotufebovinikujarebuso.pdf
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/48169427440.pdf
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/39817051750.pdf
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/tokogusogixatakizatu.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396c94a1e0a---76340467901.pdf
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/18637657079.pdf
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/29524457284.pdf
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/10318572104.pdf
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09d141d622b09941e775bbf817163ad/solovewivukenupasupokege.pdf
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6e6bdca0c38e199378ee84da7d08aa/xusijoluxogawa.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/48117780393.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euhiqstb3hilg79tvatsqj8j22/88394486578.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398b3a2b788756c048bf3396b7faeade/74231026739.pdf
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/50371127537.pdf
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/fenivedozuxipilepepa.pdf
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/kawusedet.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b96c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB96C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d17e.bin
90801ee10d1613726b55bd565172948699d26e00588792baa94f0ec4c60dcb3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD17E 15872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9e5.bin
b41b0d9002e8d41911dba48e15c99724d1285570689905ab1de3a71af9c2525a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E5 10312 bytes