Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 622454f24fa0162d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-04 00:01:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f75842a6e9b79e0abb4c9ed4bd2e916c SHA-1: 9b1af8214810f758d6d6f21b0e261b0a8242fee6 SHA-256: 622454f24fa0162d52a2494d6336556d150a7969d97f4feb0d7d8b44c6d68bcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lead users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=probl%C3%A8mes+mesures+de+longueurs+cm2 PDF link annotation
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/lijinolafokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4c46bb504---tutapevagibodokivowafepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cae971d83---30865473579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/78287200550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d935f00736---19903509878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38fbeb1834---24631278516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9ad53633c---20001477473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/55541186654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfo5k41rv5rven0kusp9nismml/37031938780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/zizotizomimorufabalesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0dls059ucld4sceth690tadnm/metuzunuluwagarodigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c948f9eb1c---15760263170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/mijujavunesulumugofedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6203fabb02---muzabatovumopekujajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9au5l6lhdit0uq88nv8ipemva/64475944082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0586904d90405f3629070373fc94f9/48528546910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/42559609230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/43826135962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/370313958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/99320051573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgpidn6ah76na8ip5jbfnlqhlb/91483252864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/69957807715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e94500fc70db243a56db253f2a2f5b86/dojane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/pusoditakabidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0E 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 741b67123cc64ac6a839f51a0238b153d832c82deb00cec5af97f2e3e473f79b
font_01_sfnt_off000126e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E4 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b6fc81957ff46de98cb67c4aae94fb7b50132c2b04c98b4eb7575690bec62c49
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7B 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 0c133022d1e9883d2ff7035cf84f1fa0be9cfa0d671266bc5a940283bc0f9855
font_03_sfnt_off000155a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1