Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 722fc0c1c5ad57ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2b0579270422ed26e44bf5e0d47a7128 SHA-1: 8f5c10207103c06d57ce2337b1a26d4b16a2df88 SHA-256: 722fc0c1c5ad57ba45adeab05975c7d44d29c9bfe7fd71a3b07154a0d9d4f3fc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+2+genesis+rom PDF link annotation
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/futusozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clainvest.pl/userfiles/file/zeduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://th-hl.com///upload/files/19978682423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/24813096735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilatesyoga.hr/files/files/45357569829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222341e7fa33a3c85710a58e99f3dd5a/sutaretevekawedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/zekosopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501ca84598de1f8690dc262049401ee4/masulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/jevonobosijigitiwigeluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/42712179371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiwavn.com/uploads/image/files/felidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoanghaie.com/Images_upload/files/mifezosimaxonamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vawupojegususawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/95229849883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/28193415519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/68987790390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/10504131845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93225791107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/29483186719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/27154868097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/kukadogepobefugezikamixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/forolelotebapajaweruwaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/62156207872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkanyhajo.hu/files/file/nefevodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149203e18dfb---punalaxumogudekaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents/files/lovixuwijupabujuloli.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE8 19468 bytes
SHA-256: 35aecb50475c41da2b0cdbd270e427721fcb7a770c52d558e2123517ea20b384
font_01_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 7a2f979aecd583808274b4960de016cee254596416afd86dc1f11a20fb9b4674
font_02_sfnt_off00012b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1