Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22fb31d64ce28de2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 02:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f6e87bd7537df66097494aa588b2dc6c SHA-1: dc939096a19e24e6f7d01adf868011b42b8442ba SHA-256: 22fb31d64ce28de296979674f68ce30bb384efe3da230222ffabec6c2c879b55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing or malware sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and the link farm detection strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/74377478433.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0875113e4c---54170435944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14ac588d057e4340c97ac585dcf9a87/31653957137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/gutesumujokupatirapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q2kml4t38q4623lj1lbinidlh/70938925438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609262d4be886---78142267849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/92287590510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/devabalupepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/3412003286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/soxiguxexawewuwurofela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fitaselotijibekulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/70116305033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdnpbdjdqnq99iejosj6ihfpm6/pabofijuwilajumuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c38c6ae0b5---16071931127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsuathientu.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xupudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088789a5a915---bonitetoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/23437544444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c788f162c---tesunoboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/kanasoruzesumijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt7if7743jp6ieqrqu41rmkvg8/danonuxemolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/debalategama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+download+for+pc+windows+7+32bitPDF 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_off0000d780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD780 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF92 15916 bytes
SHA-256: 81fdfc70105db1419562630395fd36ce72e17d679cd600b70e5e6f28f824a2a3
font_02_sfnt_off00011862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11862 11320 bytes
SHA-256: a08f7619dc53e715ce4963a688442c9f6040184ffa3099c34e91f99efb430cf5