Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 322bb406c87f4819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e4a341c671ffed05c5d97c16d5fd15c4 SHA-1: 4a79bfcaf9ead60c48e05bb35cf5b5175c197cff SHA-256: 322bb406c87f4819c1a3ebfb5ff0315ab871ac55651a8666f4af1fcc3de24274
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 contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to these malicious sites, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=east+liverpool+ohio+police+department PDF link annotation
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84fbf7ee21---kelisamero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu2oibmq5f7qod1d4db4ls1ja5/33413303526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6deeb40de8---gotowidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106111900444468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb42662e91---jubizutanegutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/jarupamudewidupuzixozugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e6e1cbee9---wubukiferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/vefasuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/lezipunuxenegibuwurigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/lawanigexetepiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/5225257929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqunajvnvfin8resjfj9bieoqk/zubogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///98823442085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/040547129804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deaba3m60kbgbuonqh8s0a4lil/19458050357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavafilowesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1da3d3dd7715a0c020c91b12af66d42/88326438001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teyadegitimvideo.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pinipifivisomurajaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a5d635d69e88449a51b45b1556a850/famez.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF11 10828 bytes
SHA-256: eda5dadbc515a0aeb4e4c6aaee19d97c91e2ee546eaf2420dac9d2ca77f7e432
font_02_sfnt_off000107d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D5 17220 bytes
SHA-256: e8d66b4d2bd58a7390768c184b38a928034d023763248deb4d24b5d31e6869a3