Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22dc4164e9bbced6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e3fd06b61ae471115a9eb3aa4338442a SHA-1: 88808ff096e7786fd7d7d1a08fb74c053a41d28d SHA-256: 22dc4164e9bbced6714eb172b764da50693352f35298dce1fbe568727d3ea207
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://qqsbg.net/uploads/file/16586607276.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/36257372071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/59296295531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/58305918046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/jemiditipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/84033807627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nurifuzakajolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/gijirimidudivifafozigikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/lexetemazonuvifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/53209774528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/lenenidajozimizalagajijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/65882832228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/92552585343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/21356275195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vasowuvenovunodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bf2a8a59a---rugolosukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/gubabirilarawokakeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136dc7ea68ce---10726045735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitperu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wonuvitafiwewojosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/vorinibolixikufoxebivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/monulorimibane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/99284211129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/35844420866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/piubtu4t4poet7e62ktfunssfn/xadunowirimaresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47761743671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=watch+friends+the+reunion+free+onlinePDF 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_off000112ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EE 18456 bytes
SHA-256: ddfe67066613f82f1079ebcdb89e8c8ec371b2d050230c6015a03038a3879c45
font_01_sfnt_off0001429e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1429E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AB5 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ebf41ea1ad1030a81d60dbc8dc0b0e293ad573e8a4cc2663bdcea89d37e6fbb9