Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22e2c3cde7ac1823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e595e53a0361e95394ce8768dec86581 SHA-1: 74ab0789525e4fdc2b8c93242739e67c2cd322a1 SHA-256: 22e2c3cde7ac18238408ea549070c27bdeb772ad6e12eeadb6ed59181b962dbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' indicates the document likely uses urgent language to prompt user interaction with these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+event+hill+climb+racing+2
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74274946962.pdf
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thrnfavckce3acja6bfac3q8cddd93kh/nolapemod.pdf
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/56831252824.pdf
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/kesivaxol.pdf
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554e8eb10128c0e93b2928a804d3a239/zurotizudib.pdf
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/tekot.pdf
    • http://ph-easycome.com/userfiles/file/gosetenatodizazeruleri.pdf
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/rogonazolopotasepazijedo.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322fa6937d8---65992165260.pdf
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/40643188346.pdf
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/22191081668.pdf
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/40527759881.pdf
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_117EE86DA948105A.pdf
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/vitinedudefuruzeb.pdf
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/81170185335.pdf
    • https://usgcambodia.com/userfiles/file/38529018514.pdf
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26445025346.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046263d3a26d7c5b3974780c89c3833e/62271793644.pdf
    • http://adgroup.co/userfiles/file/91061937008.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/16408018422.pdf
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/65045642743.pdf
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63543677272.pdf
    • http://energy-labels.nl/userfiles/file/wofikobexu.pdf
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/5289053692.pdf
    • 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_off0000ded8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin
21792b37d32e61020a15919175175895ba5fe2eca0bc365c4114f979eebd8f74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 10780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f9f.bin
fc6718e980149d5f41cc3591d6e26f016fb7de53a35298b21d9aae6a9c864b2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9F 17912 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013e95.bin
76472a64091799a3a5a9535192b275b34f8ff944774c80106c67b03b2e7bb5ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E95 18196 bytes