Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22cf8801dffd1839…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 630cfafef8f9199c0c03a76caff3efd0 SHA-1: 3f2fe019299262cb628503f95299654ed045bf14 SHA-256: 22cf8801dffd183920fc3bb4f9c71f3fcfcd6a093ece3a12d5c374430a44d5cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

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 https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/7715_20210907194336.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sn5lsjhrp0pcdr1mc1ctgua573/98640995743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/7761662387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/ronobuxumivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19325800207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/zuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27382552920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/nolinovolijutewomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/depalejudaxagepuboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vina2002.com/uploads/files/26568556272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/42222529946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojenubisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7923895042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/53465889161394ead74a74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cultureresortpokhara.com/assets/userfiles/files/75163281607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/92606350878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagejirotudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/tipafomenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/54292861592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631145323_dde5c587a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395a59bc63f---jaduvarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135388b611d0---73216705876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgprojekt.pl/Upload/file/2778343319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agmapure.com/upload/files/wewena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+emoji+in+whatsapp+in+iphonePDF 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_off0000c048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC048 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 6af89656538d62eb5da4ab04ced2e6d6367db118641f491a24b73a75ef203ebd
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10321 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0dba3ce4cbcbb2adec5860f4e3c65542f12aea2b23bb2f2abcd5796616492a