Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b22bf6ea76bbe59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-10-17 04:19:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: da1243bac1f9b55174cedbf674fd77d1 SHA-1: 062d612dbd050c9b4233ddc16a85d831c9a670b9 SHA-256: 5b22bf6ea76bbe595c859eaa0ac824670092391311713653df646247cc804fde
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11a68063bbbf932df67322d4202006f/4942015111.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71609415304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spaconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/32399038510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/mixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219388138783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/zifupejikabivonavewijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaysshine.com/fileimage/file/3162268956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgoodluckcrane.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/wosedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/bisise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/66420900961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210905080924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campfun.myhost888.com/upload/ckeditor/files/90898005788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alliance-educationsexuelle.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wimuravipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/17493585425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161633b1d44642---kuwovususorukagad.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/mukapiwufojiwere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613317ae387eb---47866655852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambartakip.net/belgeler/file/vobokeleredekipari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipiwemisikogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777d181ac69cf0b4702f41bcdd49023d/6836768944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/93035536484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/43243093241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/39280700482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/oscUj7J0Gjw/uplcv?utm_term=excessive+thirst+during+periodPDF 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_off0000e868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE868 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001007f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007F 10836 bytes
SHA-256: f48ffa3a3290f8291323e06b9c8c44b1caa37e7860791eaa32c0125d351976a5
font_02_sfnt_off00011946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11946 18076 bytes
SHA-256: cee96b5df069376b78dab819516e43c862f3b065b1eeaf2dc24d3291cb78e6d8