Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22faab816ec430ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 04:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6af89df5a9e6abd79b7476cabc9acf2f SHA-1: 1442e40577b0b3ccafb8a72130c9853da29758a4 SHA-256: 22faab816ec430ffcb7bd7d997b3e1a583e01b54efa581a4f6536e8f9ebaa9dd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious or compromised websites, likely as a form of redirection or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 5

  • 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://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/17982748197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf30063e59---wubapopemexajejinuregame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/sizixixiwozobuterame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b152f59469f5759c15451155372a51/79459745607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/64173882301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/88711562701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/wukesovonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210613205517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodrex.pl/userfiles/file/30723105621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/28254477448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/lolaviwekigudufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaad36f2be---salesoxowikenewate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/52921123213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/degejadabavekejixaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22edf7413865a39dab39b70dd25ee8fd/15956966245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca6d90abab9e295b640e6cfc54bf789/wiwukokuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kaledekatebizabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d513053635---jizidemoxejarawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974ddfac7d7---16846386739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6f2f95a9d---monunixipiminawajubejojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tva9m19dot2k9ev1ne0gtm4kre/46037155407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6f41532b4f011bc9aadd55a73965f0/71237293306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=death+dungeon+demon+hunter+rpg+mod+apkPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ecda096f67c32da3a8ec11b1d698219/junitev.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF267 3856 bytes
SHA-256: 969e9e3136239ec079bf1e8645f379ea8add8e51ab67c11772ea8a42273cae28
font_01_sfnt_off0001010d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010D 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 5ce90f15c34ed21af626aaebd73bf9c154b770d8f0f386524ca63b5befee724d
font_02_sfnt_off00011943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11943 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13155 22928 bytes
SHA-256: cf4a770aa0317b2b9f33e0b67e07f59d3846490fb91ff22ff95a1c4e24a23d65