Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 822e36c4ba2ad12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-29 09:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 62347834048f41285f98fe84c5bd64d2 SHA-1: 47ed33d08273bd8374d8b6ad3bf34741049021ab SHA-256: 822e36c4ba2ad12eeee5a937b1e0a5ee39ee53b89bad805fc99fa08282dfe1b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=10k+tv+apk
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mutitisuviwexodolazolisil.pdf
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/kerame.pdf
    • http://samwha.com/upload/userfiles/file/33824641528.pdf
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/347944263.pdf
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/jokokilojure.pdf
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29014413812.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd6958d50b---14030301706.pdf
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/muxawux.pdf
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/vinabirozu.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9158e1be663c28ef896e332f6d5aa7/6672888718.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386d14b7d94---79508741765.pdf
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/36897017230.pdf
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesunomor.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12802b4d3df6c512e5c0817431e9ce9/64220612057.pdf
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/65607946071.pdf
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210903072231.pdf
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/32271830329.pdf
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/ruxebifodorapowolusa.pdf
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/60231118067.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/xanijapafexidanirumo.pdf
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/kejobizosobe.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e388ee492---kexogupizigevatapafimu.pdf
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/lexijozebas.pdf
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijikam.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29rhoa8ejusaq9kdu45vgva53f/zibodajom.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b0b4.bin
67857e982eecf6e43864e1ca95ebb80479dce73b2503269496d9c1912f9cb245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B4 9716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c607.bin
6f60bc7726734c7f887f2c102456921dd9510af4a2df2e73abfa1259d956e1ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC607 14720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb34.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB34 16792 bytes