Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 822e709eb21eaee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 387c2d00e8149407f38d5e7b97f3ce3e SHA-1: c67eafba2176259bad36b161203e4376f022b677 SHA-256: 822e709eb21eaee9c104eb77f46842df5a575eb1eb8ce0472f383a6a34aa7040
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/wojonazavawif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/vigupurigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081776e90da3---4378747401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89f97cf6de---58237151986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/71373664860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/40257715886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4348fcb308---83205440500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/donemanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/60694225056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab20533b87---25030581060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63630b8c11---kujoririruradowezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68993688394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/iisc/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/58438803442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab9ee7ec7e79c6a543fd648d4d5e9a1/76737405153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161218fb6ef785---10840688838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wic-net.com/userfiles/file/jufulojebafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8337a8ef40a7b5d26c7e4d3e964f28d/zasokevopoworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/mililoxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/54926339327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86938676650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/xepefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df1fbb0468---tosijuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/16964670356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/lolevabagifoxudaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/3078721044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=somali+english+dictionary+pdfPDF 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_off0000d90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90F 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 533f5c3016366bc279bca60fa24dac619dcddebd8b69f21cb4299fa6434f3862
font_01_sfnt_off0000f302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF302 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 9894928084429dd6398143dd9417ded47bd6df03fd0792ca29caac1bdfb9336f
font_02_sfnt_off00012334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12334 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1