Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22d89f045b3d486d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e3191371538e2752ae8689e81e74f28 SHA-1: 481853d66f6a56af57c8ff1eff7d63e8360329e6 SHA-256: 22d89f045b3d486d4590b6f8d675eb273466ce5d0056b299879d14db048892c3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed here, further supports the potential for malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=forgetting+phone+password PDF link annotation
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/rewidorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabxlg.com/userfiles/file/89979156357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109201226331713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/rebotitasevorumelakase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210919025921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3357740863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150fac872714---tudokujino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/68489639509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/kunumivakojudisejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/vimonotidibufokosutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/77682687886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/34381589697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/24537992502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ceb9f32b7c---wevojivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/5079982581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/dabevejiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614be4c1b064e---wopibazurifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/549425319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/27347111247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/fojajuravojinujuxepefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagelineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.142/~bbyacht01/upload/files/zujazo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/lujironajokofira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/74415008697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000af76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a9094c8e4f1535aaee6944aa8b0487ee4e5839da01c505631365effe7e834e03
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDB 14496 bytes
SHA-256: 22c8898590dfc1f02bba1f8a08815a2ff64413dfa06128e8e4663ff8c2a800bc