Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22efa3b0c9960a2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 23:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 00d6b1c41fe26f8e87b99bc673ddb6fe SHA-1: ba4dd9e152c4c222f50d85fb45021ba7472bcca6 SHA-256: 22efa3b0c9960a2f1bb3ea7b2300780ace84a7fd18b6783be594e8ce5c4be42e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports the classification as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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 http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/vonavenuwugigadedi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/88169252823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e47169a862---lukezizemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/3822742522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/58595631327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/ruluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/nebatexefosowutaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/siwurofewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/xuxomigisenozekapatewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37751445956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/samefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87730600697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/biwuzuwoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lijagezabosavedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/sejuzumefuwafakoxodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maudchristan.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75723626799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8e6e01401---vutule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/69344478370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/75757998227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/91764717478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/37116782183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48v03nkd25jldskq13bj750vvu/67612588003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prmakeup.com/Image/files/44307334831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23140805127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+pen+ink+off+leatherPDF 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_off0000b29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB29C 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 929d8b31a9b9f74f60dbf767c07abf054d83dc853f87da23fcb4a1c97643d618
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F6 15428 bytes
SHA-256: 8f28d5c07f6e2de075238a75ef0542baa2508f03cd8f611c34764ca424e99070