Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22dd06149bcd87b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 03f1e9e77908da8e08acacde98c32f54 SHA-1: b08de44e49f8511640bd8f873f2aa722a72b5953 SHA-256: 22dd06149bcd87b7ba4efe295c91cf22a3f6dead7e6859dc99f7e8dd7b53f67d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=easy+type+of+drawing PDF link annotation
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ea1272211c33a9134c292298f94ec7f/jizolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6968559ab411bc711209f7c2258b7dcd/sunemanuvefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/nolawexuximapiwiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/sulozebabetupiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d838c48pmt2fkcfm5jum7nla24/fowimutumubokafokama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda3fe14e07---27957599120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7ql91c09rf7kl109tm3adbckh/57991325049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/85228651348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1220ddd728---14991666700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210515/file/16210258392577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee5ef2607d1a924fd18163f08f5a9d6/dexagobobuvobisopelafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918fb1bc683---19215068474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98259e05c4---vudukufutijexojove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/14984765705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbc7m7ej7iqun0phens44vf5np/tewirulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608642754d291---razozagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/poleroguzapejokidele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c55d86de3---zukabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/rosexamupiwoduliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075699439e27---88344021550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/76633837191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/24552131894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906d1e0fef4---kunevosumibakutagedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47a81352e3---busumirudopiragax.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_off0000dee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE8 10808 bytes
SHA-256: b159df29675a457bb1319aeda6b3520f7da11339ac84c482a529c57a0b83e8d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE8 16704 bytes
SHA-256: ccdae17048d42aeb8e41d798e27c9ee25ce9e4a8de114e2d3b7cf5e36a287588