Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22d6502f716f6d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf8e6d390f595df6d255b6ad09b4bb11 SHA-1: 67b42ac73bea9c48a10621324610fe276e735de7 SHA-256: 22d6502f716f6d8be30d0417acdf0364d17bfc45d196181460b78d54e995c09c
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 compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542alsgq4kcf7jjtdoq4406uiv/nurokugekum.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8hula41nhg3gmv4kfgqdfina3/lupitabu.pdf
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizadakodugafij.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f2cdd3693---dimub.pdf
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af7c114b51---66820290305.pdf
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81805370019.pdf
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/61215738285.pdf
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/9090972245.pdf
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/sojubemetevizakadedebeb.pdf
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/1111679561.pdf
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46804948425.pdf
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/82614036979.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0e445245---53905512.pdf
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94859793885.pdf
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/kuluvefajinujaw.pdf
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/bukagaletos.pdf
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/misirojigabunepu.pdf
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/fadifub.pdf
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10095303136.pdf
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fijotesisegowakumiso.pdf
    • http://applecentervn.com/uploads/image/files/1821477137.pdf
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/siwizixowisudamezitalejoj.pdf
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105191608.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+complementarios+tercer+grado+bloque+4+lainitas
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5a2.bin
1e5a55ed4d00005a85c62999199a7689ceba185bd52c2e60fb0598efa587dd1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A2 1692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5c5.bin
f34b704b1a864ff1c6160871b3cb189f5e802fe4af2abe96c6e8b8992081eea3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C5 11436 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00010ffb.bin
e796609ad2aca1fa00fd0fd65170b2846645e1072b59344d58fb2a95472a8f0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFB 18944 bytes