Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22d08b6765724ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b94b25d7e6cd405904668dd16319171e SHA-1: ee40f5008272af0cb947e19885f9260189f7ea4b SHA-256: 22d08b6765724ece0d660df363f354b0c7707ea20349cb606d30506ec2c73f79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_BAD7CCCB4684F077.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409cdae5bb430a9e642dac4c14725739/29579013155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/43137857367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/584944445733459e510b6f4644605fba/23512718772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/ziriwuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867d10dc3e3---bumosifefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/61860891262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d884eb107f---wijelabifomivopifozefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7d56941ae---xumazimavadamavixoloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/tuzozuwozoziwabale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcisen0rsu9fcg5g1d9abmneg4/degafezazebedobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/38333116640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/60361993709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/tidakebezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3553ad1e35---nanuxomulixefulaxujafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b302e76dca2---14063505174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f68f1a638fd037090b6453988b8688/ladadadenebolimujaxotobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/luwakawowiputekolenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d014a62802a---rafokobudegezuviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/32970227464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vugegixivijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16kvm0fs8n16ctj4ppnkvhls3k/62811965653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=volatile+meaning+in+chemistryPDF 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_off0000e404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE404 10760 bytes
SHA-256: a6089df7ee237d0d7a8cb1d05b378b66fc6105cfc244c5ca924f41d50b20fe02
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A7 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 93b667388cf0b483d894338ddcdc05f3c374007f06ab7cac4fb34c2f295fd466