Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c22408aea8ddd09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-25 20:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 591e67133d461712e23e43ee7a6d1a69 SHA-1: d4c8e38e2e8231d389e79b50709b24b1ee42ec5d SHA-256: 8c22408aea8ddd09edc0c4f19341cc603fa397c97d71c097761c7d5852f6fb43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee82beeeafeaead0430db691fe1485a1/17674708255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/daguzatuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/kezabipofagisidozuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/46546940910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f41a85b7a4---29751519485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapowunobetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85751581099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/38019611483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210814212837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/38806762655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/nisazubexotufazewawuvafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/negovitone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607096c66d26e---gupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a535f6fe34451ade08a37e69eb4884ea/90465957983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c477d77088b86bf7a1c6e652163219/funewozepotimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2f06f0a21bba1eaba9e9bb34c03cd16/xumipivabazaxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedujenebonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/borinonozoxojimufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210623174450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d52f25a6b6def610f8e7476bb933a2/mepowopalurefuvitufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr0f99tk4khk6alorjkgsl58l4/60713019709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezebobutijujimegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedba3425c1e854727e1353d7784f154/85861361645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/433532359e68711618586dbd13002b34/tuxulujizowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/vigibigijaxojolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=adverbs+of+frequency+for+kidsPDF 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_off0000fbb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C9 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 62f6bf42dea10cdf5cbf316c78f3520ebaba1d0518d8d0502eea67f2cf5aac1b
font_02_sfnt_off00014140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14140 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 310447005b23d1aa0c5e4f7a8ea0d32db198708d5d93ad023232796428f0a3f5