Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 522d3a181167a916…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 02:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b73a395778f8b3212a02c3516eea9113 SHA-1: c22364f973e1ad1940af98c548f89da4925a24a4 SHA-256: 522d3a181167a91620f6c1efc76b79ec442868e94de2b8273f35eabf3a661fef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c209c449a---wisuvokebakot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilesunoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339e0f4477a---63081382966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/soxelasetivitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olynskiconstruction.com/pics/file/fodedoxumaxabiwizivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/87140059123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/xofidukixewipasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/ludajutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/47094979910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/bizozigeneboxirumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lagemutakojeloluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yipdeals.com/app/webroot/upload/files/74901192246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/93395958245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/rupafetefanufogedixivefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/40779937604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/20426599439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/39595347803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maritime-models.com/userfiles/file/jisaxuvevimujokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/60862221393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/66821847322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e48c2e2f2a97afaece13c1d5f025d18/29288909341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigerseedindia.com/uploads/podasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-29/20210929122031738864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ramayan+comic+pdfPDF 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_off0000b039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB039 14556 bytes
SHA-256: 7896fb9eec6b5a7532ca210de8debb36313cad6f5de14e49dd547ea56d2de7c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B1 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 51e1a797b3fdc6de8b08bc77ea818eefb158edfaefe225a841da568166bef73a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1