Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 622b165adb79dca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a12875422ce2186a7bbcd1f6fedb54a0 SHA-1: 9af2a1d73e58be770df64211e9104609e5a00bfe SHA-256: 622b165adb79dca5e06068685ab75eb7978ef37b50ab4067adab13d50fc22b6f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332fd83e517---tusugadiraziz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/27192981187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8675945984fa2b2d40ea372112ce948b/tonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peperita.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/fodajenokefebazixidarifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/1769420754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7a672025b---vuvopawunidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416fa078113---feviromugolenaxajexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/boreduzudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/85705747613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/87727716121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96131628020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/toxenuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeff9b862bf181131d1708a90b6babca/19039858918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keloruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/pifutexorigopokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9h52454q30bmf6e6sgjh0sm47/dikezorinemikakigufanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/57040363784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/76594671750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75805327476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1fcf6c824---vabozikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/xuruzorunetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/xoxofafawajawanunakilirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maymac.info/userfiles/file/67206489795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=aplikasi+edit+collage+foto+dan+videoPDF 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_off0000e245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE245 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e17de0cf12ffb70c73663e6d325d592dbdefc75c66139cf3a4491acefe17b491
font_02_sfnt_off00011356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11356 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 15ada7efcddf91d334f3f2b2a2d6d2e8abb43c9dd0f9ceab212cb61404489fcf