Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 522ac6c9a17b27ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dd05ccf57775de337c48cd7dd2d54533 SHA-1: ce705c4cd291883e7da6c19318024e86000edd04 SHA-256: 522ac6c9a17b27ee36b92035105823d95bee0c546a27e49abcf2f6413db7ef4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to various websites, with several links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection results suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/12190859880.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10e42d261f211118fef1cf8954aef82/libikakopidevunevewixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/witexuwajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437971f0733cc2888072a8a2e7f52aad/15402810076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210730_003032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevimoderojudidiworop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e25b767682157b4cabab968ca3af5b/30020221577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72969008115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/dodupovezobamebixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abc6a76418---fodefomelasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17556294673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/33545582565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61346139157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/wigobepokejowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d444d73126573a7d920dd1a574346ee/12944286293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/28704716193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/66823831914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/bufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m294aus4dj7v30mtuio0v5a61p/popamofimewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///vejigubuzuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/poredosijoxupagosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/18180312755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50509218700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b47d3acdb8---3568431155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+game+download+for+android+apkpurePDF 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_off00010887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10887 11124 bytes
SHA-256: adfa6e771f006bf48026a69d39c28fe89a471204fc9d7a39c52899835bc069eb
font_01_sfnt_off00012264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12264 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A76 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 37c52af9655ce6845eb572cc7662c28c9c68dc8b7e165a01f177a55acae7479f