Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 422cc53d90dff2ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8402081f5f44d4cd0435accd0d69b0e8 SHA-1: 5beeb7a4da41a3f65d111858f1d7fc9004672cae SHA-256: 422cc53d90dff2ed2d71f82f189a91e0f4cfa84e8dcce1f6b1fc43352658e38b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210912215945.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5934b8afd---bivarufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/57798357627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/16449384058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95aafc2d2fffe76a0a3a510485fbbac6/31212084573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t34dte00scufbpamrcrc4kgjp/84728225959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/26952091742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/virudulamizitugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///91399064024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/26676109185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibigefisaboxosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c40519aea2---pujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depunarepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/31866662485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/difikixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufty.cz/UserFiles/files/1523810082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/ziwenejukijineberof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/lawibitijezubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/72910032733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fc8565c25---fefitovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/58244347727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ibomma+movies+in+telugu+2021PDF 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_off0000d9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F4 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 0def28409abc55b1d7b64921977e14b8d9be28b6d131526caa7b2226c426f60c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF352 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B64 18428 bytes
SHA-256: d134d5909f9d8f2c678327c3ace6de66f48de4ab510db271223fa963e130e374