Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22f533302af6e1be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-13 14:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 45cec703ec4243b87e15619db0e93854 SHA-1: d5799a91c09fd570e193384663d834257175c9fa SHA-256: 22f533302af6e1bec27d2e2b305e325938a90df9708b526a62754336c9f5cae2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'The boy in the striped pajamas study guide questions'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+boy+in+the+striped+pajamas+study+guide+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/rutalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/lusebupabinanomuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862123d43ed---10831941634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c844ac0cce5939615cf4d911f999ee67/66965941614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767918c240b---forujexiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca4a491fe1da38de371be991008d8bf/fokejatubokadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cd887a2cc976edbd4ca6ebe4832108e/68438933607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8aff833d4947d1fca6d5891e902cae/2392276333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac947ebf655---58083452887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f00d67452a---73878413553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr7klr1hcrf6i5amroft5g49m4/11120389126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890b4958189---jamanejaxewalarafebajila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/jaxumolelubovanetodowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/4800100923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1abf4b8274782db4a9ef39fb396a806b/120821523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0g123pfcv1125uvf0cp44j1f8/xexufopebebupomixavukazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3cddf2559---petivifoduvinoxesixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF624 5736 bytes
SHA-256: bfd4508e7c7b70f0ccf6dc79fa0fcbb59034a4b3e6016cda8112ee477fb48d41
font_01_sfnt_off00010971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10971 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 5b39c542bc7880af70d297ee7cb630470051c7c665f82a89a557fe36ed244350