Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 422d2284392c10bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:11:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3655641b8a7dac3ed75099bbbec91ae9 SHA-1: 03f3f39af30fa9db3d458b24fdc7d353fc0958eb SHA-256: 422d2284392c10bfde19f5004262bda0a93716106594144c187740a0750f8ce7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/69848269775.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/12691999999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/54019360155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b318b9db743---92366038223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6e2octknahpklpcbke0fsbtcq/38824125846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab29656b69b---10659926615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/kabufedizalojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/20210463272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756991e4d11---56822835091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/32483604905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/mozugepagelobegego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e4eeccf98---37651393101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd68a3635fa---60184467537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8431c1e934c3920e08fd9601ed667a9c/gafagatunudepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b510a00f914---91723469064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92ec25304c---xekofodigosuxekezoziretav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/gupekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jkoe2bbuuog7ldiclo43qnt6m/82291954585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8bb1851a8---63531018207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/mediwixajajomekibibitixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/66395732161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902a93386af---33609280172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=3+minute+bedtime+storyPDF 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_off0000d344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD344 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB56 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 11c882d08867ded9d07abccf0943dbdf799587473a1c8479b4d0cc695179b4d3
font_02_sfnt_off000119e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E3 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 9640921cf8ecfce135b656ebaefd7f289c70d24ee08d1be13e988a6bc2300b99